Lepisorus

Accepted species 96 Documented here 17 Family Polypodiaceae

Accepted species 96 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
Lepisorus thunbergianus Ching 190 documented
Lepisorus microphyllus (C.Presl) Ebihara & T.Fujiw. 125 documented
Lepisorus fortuni (T.Moore) C.M.Kuo 35 documented
Lepisorus schraderi Ching 21 documented
Lepisorus obscure-venulosus (Hayata) Ching 18 documented
Lepisorus rostratus (Bedd.) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 12 documented
Lepisorus ensatus (Thunb.) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 11 documented
Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching 9 documented
Lepisorus kawakamii (Hayata) Tagawa 7 documented
Lepisorus morrisonensis (Hayata) H.Ito 7 documented
Lepisorus pseudoussuriensis Tagawa 7 documented
Lepisorus heterolepis Ching 6 documented
Lepisorus onoei Ching 6 documented
Lepisorus ussuriensis Ching 6 documented
Lepisorus clathratus Ching 5 documented
Lepisorus megasorus Ching 5 documented
Lepisorus monilisorus (Hayata) Tagawa 3 documented
Lepisorus superficialis (Blume) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 44 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li Wang 2 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus spicatus (L.f.) Li Wang 2 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus abbreviatus (Fée) Li Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus accedens (Blume) Hosok. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus affinis Ching ex Ching & Chu H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus alberti (Regel) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus amaurolepidus (Sledge) Bir & Trikha 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus angustus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus annamensis (C.Chr.) Li Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus annuifrons (Makino) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus asterolepis (Baker) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus balteiformis (Brause) Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus bicolor (Takeda) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus boninensis (Christ) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus buergerianus (Miq.) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus carnosus (J.Sm.) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus confluens W.M.Chu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus contortus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus crassipes Ching & Y.X.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus distans (Makino) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus eilophyllus (Diels) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus elegans Ching & W.M.Chu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus hachijoensis Sa.Kurata 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus henryi (Hieron. ex C.Chr.) Li Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus jakonensis (Blanf.) Fraser-Jenk. & J.Krieg. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus kolesnikovii (Tzvelev) Shmakov 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus kuchenensis (Y.C.Wu) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus kuratae T.Fujiw. & Seriz. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus lewisii (Baker) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus likiangensis Ching & S.K.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus lineariformis Ching & S.K.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus longifolius (Blume) Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus loriformis Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus luchunensis Y.X.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus macrosphaerus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus maculosus (Christ) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus mamas Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus marginatus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus medioximus T.Fujiw., K.Hori & Khine 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus medogensis Ching & Y.X.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus mehrae Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus mikawanus Sa.Kurata 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus minor (W.M.Chu) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus mishmica Benniamin & Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus miyoshianus (Makino) Fraser-Jenk. & Subh.Chandra 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus nigripes T.Fujiw. & Seriz. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus normalis (D.Don) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus novoguineensis (Rosenst.) Li Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus nudus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus oligolepidus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus oosphaerus (C.Chr.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus ovatus (C.Presl) R.Kr.Singh & V.K.Rawat 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus palmatopedatus (Baker) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus perrierianus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus platyrhynchos (Kunze) Li Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus pseudonudus (Ching) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus pyriformis (Ching) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus rufofuscus T.Fujiw. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus scolopendrium (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Mehra & Bir 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus sinensis Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus sordidus (C.Chr.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus soulieanus (Christ) Ching & S.K.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus squamatus (A.R.Sm. & X.C.Zhang) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus subhemionitideus (Christ) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus sublinearis Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus suboligolepidus Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus subsessilis Ching & Y.X.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus tajimaensis T.Fujiw. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus tibeticus Ching & S.K.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus tosaensis (Makino) H.Ito 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus tricholepis K.H.Shing ex Y.X.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus triglossus (Baker) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus uchiyamae (Makino) H.Ito 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus validinervis (Kunze) Li Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus waltonii (Ching) S.L.Yu 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus yamaokae Seriz. 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus youxingii R.H.Jiang & X.C.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lepisorus zippelii (Blume) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang 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.