Melpomene

Accepted species 30 Documented here 2 Family Polypodiaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Melpomene moniliformis (Lag.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 13 documented
Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) Reider & R.C.Moran 3 documented
Melpomene albicans Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene allosuroides (Rosenst.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene anazalea Sundue & Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene caput-gorgonis Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene deltata (Mickel & Beitel) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene erecta (C.V.Morton) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene firma (J.Sm.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene flabelliformis (Poir.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene flagellata Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene gracilis (Hook.) A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene huancabambensis Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene jimenezii Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene leptostoma (Fée) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene melanosticta (Kunze) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene michaelium Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene occidentalis Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene paradoxa Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene pennellii (Copel.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene personata Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene pilosissima (M.Martens & Galeotti) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene pseudonutans (Christ & Rosenst.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene sklenarii Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene sodiroi (Christ & Rosenst.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene vulcanica Lehnert 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene wolfii (Hieron.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene xiphopteroides (Liebm.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene youngii (Stolze) B.León & A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melpomene zempoaltepetlensis (Mickel & Beitel) A.R.Sm. 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.