Notholaena

Accepted species 36 Documented here 11 Family Pteridaceae

Accepted species 36 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
Notholaena standleyi Maxon 219 documented
Notholaena californica D.C.Eaton 27 documented
Notholaena candida (M.Martens & Galeotti) Hook. 13 documented
Notholaena aschenborniana Klotzsch 12 documented
Notholaena brachypus (Kunze) J.Sm. 11 documented
Notholaena lemmonii D.C.Eaton 10 documented
Notholaena greggii (Mett. ex Kuhn) Maxon 6 documented
Notholaena nealleyi Seaton ex J.M.Coult. 6 documented
Notholaena grayi Davenp. 5 documented
Notholaena neglecta Maxon 5 documented
Notholaena affinis (Mett.) T.Moore 3 documented
Notholaena galeottii Fée 1 below the evidence gate
Notholaena sulphurea (Cav.) J.Sm. 1 below the evidence gate
Notholaena aliena Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena aurantiaca D.C.Eaton 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena aureolina Yatsk. & Arbeláez 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena brachycaulis Mickel 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena brevistipes Mickel 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena bryopoda Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena cubensis Weath. ex R.M.Tryon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena ekmanii Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena galapagensis Weath. & Svenson 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena jacalensis Pray 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena jaliscana Yatsk. & Arbeláez 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena leonina Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena meridionalis Mickel 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena montielae Yatsk. & Arbeláez 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena montieliae Yatsk. & Arbeláez 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena ochracea (Hook.) Yatsk. & Arbeláez 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena revoluta A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena rigida Davenp. 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena rosei Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena schaffneri (E.Fourn.) Underw. ex Davenp. 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena solitaria R.M.Tryon 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena trichomanoides (L.) R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Notholaena weatherbiana R.M.Tryon 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.