Polypodium

Accepted species 60 Documented here 18 Family Polypodiaceae

Accepted species 60 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
Polypodium glycyrrhiza D.C.Eaton 1,972 documented
Polypodium virginianum L. 1,508 documented
Polypodium vulgare L. 1,483 documented
Polypodium californicum Kaulf. 399 documented
Polypodium scouleri Hook. & Grev. 385 documented
Polypodium cambricum L. 295 documented
Polypodium macaronesicum A.E.Bobrov 139 documented
Polypodium interjectum Shivas 114 documented
Polypodium calirhiza S.A.Whitmore & A.R.Sm. 86 documented
Polypodium appalachianum Haufler & Windham 74 documented
Polypodium hesperium Maxon 71 documented
Polypodium sibiricum Sipliv. 69 documented
Polypodium amorphum Suksd. 66 documented
Polypodium ensiforme Thunb. 24 documented
Polypodium pellucidum Kaulf. 12 documented
Polypodium plesiosorum Kunze 10 documented
Polypodium saximontanum Windham 7 documented
Polypodium rhodopleuron Kunze 6 documented
Polypodium eatonii Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × aztecum Windham & Yatsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × encumeadense (Neuroth, W.Jäger & Bennert) Rumsey, Carine & Robba 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × font-queri Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × huancayanum G.Kunkel 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × incognitum Cusick 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × schneideri G.Schneid. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × shivasiae Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium × vianei Shmakov 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium abitaguae Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium aequale Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium alavae A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium arcanum Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium castaneum Maxon ex Tejero 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium chionolepis Sodiro 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium chirripoense Lellinger 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium christensenii Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium colpodes Kunze 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium conterminans Liebm. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium diplotrichum Mickel & Beitel 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium echinolepis Fée 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium eperopeutes Mickel & Beitel 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium exsul Mett.; Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium fauriei Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium fauriei (Copel.) Makino & Nemoto 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium fissidens Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium flagellare Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium fraternum Schltdl. & Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium hispidulum Bartlett 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium intermeldium Ching & S.K.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium kamelinii Shmakov 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium mantoniae Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium martensii Mett. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium moritzianum Link 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium oxylepis C.Chr. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium plectolepidioides Rosenst. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium praetermissum Mickel & Tejero 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium puberulum Schltdl. & Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium pumilum Brause 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium ryanii Kaulf. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium subpetiolatum Hk. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypodium trinitense Jenman 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.