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.
| Species | Authority | Usable photographs | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metathelypteris adscendens | (Ching) Ching | 16 | documented |
| Metathelypteris uraiensis | (Rosenst.) Ching | 8 | documented |
| Metathelypteris laxa | (Franch. & Sav.) Ching | 3 | documented |
| Metathelypteris burrowsiorum | N.R.Crouch | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris dassanayakei | (Fraser-Jenk.) Ranil | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris dayi | (Bedd.) Holttum | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris decipiens | (C.B.Clarke) Ching | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris flaccida | (Blume) Ching | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris fragilis | (Baker) Holttum | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris glandulifera | Ching ex K.H.Shing | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris glandulosa | H.G.Zhou & H.Li | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris gracilescens | (Blume) Ching | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris hattorii | (H.Ito) Ching | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris petiolulata | Ching ex K.H.Shing | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris singalanensis | (Baker) Ching | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris vandervekenii | Pic.Serm. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Metathelypteris wuyishanica | Ching | 0 | below the evidence 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.