Nephrolepis

Accepted species 35 Documented here 10 Family Nephrolepidaceae

Accepted species 35 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
Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.) C.Presl 963 documented
Nephrolepis biserrata (Sw.) Schott 136 documented
Nephrolepis brownii (Desv.) Hovenkamp & Miyam. 125 documented
Nephrolepis exaltata (L.) Schott 32 documented
Nephrolepis flexuosa Colenso 29 documented
Nephrolepis rivularis (Vahl) Mett. ex Krug 14 documented
Nephrolepis abrupta (Bory) Mett. 9 documented
Nephrolepis falcata (Cav.) C.Chr. 7 documented
Nephrolepis pectinata (Willd.) Schott 6 documented
Nephrolepis undulata (Afzel. ex Sw.) J.Sm. 3 documented
Nephrolepis acutifolia (Desv.) Christ 2 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis × averyi Nauman 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis × copelandii W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis × hippocrepicis Miyam. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis × medlerae W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis × pseudobiserrata Miyam. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis arida D.L.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis cocosensis A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis davalliae Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis davallioides (Sw.) Kunze 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis delicatula (Decne.) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis dicksonioides Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis equilatera A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis falciformis J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis grayumiana A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis hirsutula (G.Forst.) C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis kuroiwae Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis lauterbachii (Christ) Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis obliterata (R.Br.) J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis obtusiloba A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis occidentalis Kunze 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis pendula C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis pendula (Raddi) J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis pickelii Rosenst. ex A.Samp. 0 below the evidence gate
Nephrolepis radicans (Burm.) Kuhn 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.