Lygodium

Accepted species 31 Documented here 14 Family Lygodiaceae

Accepted species 31 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
Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) Sw. 893 documented
Lygodium articulatum A.Rich. 204 documented
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw. 173 documented
Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R.Br. 170 documented
Lygodium venustum Sw. 74 documented
Lygodium reticulatum Schkuhr 22 documented
Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw. 21 documented
Lygodium heterodoxum Kunze 13 documented
Lygodium lanceolatum Desv. 6 documented
Lygodium volubile Sw. 5 documented
Lygodium circinnatum (Burm.f.) Sw. 4 documented
Lygodium longifolium (Willd.) Sw. 4 documented
Lygodium hians E.Fourn. 3 documented
Lygodium radiatum Prantl 3 documented
Lygodium auriculatum (Willd.) Alston ex Alston & Holttum 2 below the evidence gate
Lygodium salicifolium C.Presl 2 below the evidence gate
Lygodium × boivinii Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium × fayae Jermy & T.G.Walker 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium × lancetillanum L.D.Gómez 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium borneense Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium conforme C.Chr. 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium cubense Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium kerstenii Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium kingii Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium merrillii Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium oligostachyum (Willd.) Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium polystachyum Wall. ex T.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium smithianum C.Presl ex Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium trifurcatum Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium versteegii Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Lygodium yunnanense Ching 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.