Histiopteris

Accepted species 11 Documented here 1 Family Dennstaedtiaceae

Accepted species 11 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J.Sm. 764 documented
Histiopteris alte-alpina Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris caudata (Copel.) Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris conspicua Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris estipulata Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris hennipmanii Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris herbacea Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris pilosa Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris reniformis Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris squamulata Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Histiopteris stipulacea (Hook.) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.