Pyrrosia

Accepted species 67 Documented here 12 Family Polypodiaceae

Accepted species 67 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
Pyrrosia eleagnifolia (Bory) Hovenkamp 908 documented
Pyrrosia lingua (Thunb.) Farw. 102 documented
Pyrrosia rupestris (R.Br.) Ching 102 documented
Pyrrosia confluens (R.Br.) Ching 79 documented
Pyrrosia polydactylos (Hance) Ching 64 documented
Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) M.G.Price 40 documented
Pyrrosia linearifolia (Hook.) Ching 19 documented
Pyrrosia longifolia (Burm.f.) Morton 19 documented
Pyrrosia sheareri (Baker) Ching 18 documented
Pyrrosia adnascens (Sw.) Ching 14 documented
Pyrrosia serpens (G.Forst.) Ching 10 documented
Pyrrosia porosa (Presl) Hovenkamp 8 documented
Pyrrosia angustissima (Giesenh. ex Diels) Tagawa & K.Iwats. 2 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia rhodesiana (C.Chr.) Schelpe 1 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia × nipponica M.Beppu & Seriz. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia abbreviata (Zoll.) Tagawa 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia albicans (Blume) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia angustata (Sw.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia assimilis (Baker) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia asterosora (Baker) Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia avaratra Rakotondr. & Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia beddomei (C.B.Clarke) Hovenkamp ex Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia bonii (Christ) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia boothii (Hook.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia calvata (Baker) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia ceylanica (Giesenh.) Sledge 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia christii (Giesenh.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia costata (Wall. ex C.Presl) Tagawa & K.Iwats. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia davidii (Giesenh.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia distichocarpa (Mett.) K.H.Shing 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia drakeana (Franch.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia eberhardtii (Christ) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia ensata Ching & K.H.Shing 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia fallax (Alderw.) M.G.Price 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia flocculosa (D.Don) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia foveolata (Alston) C.V.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia gardneri (Mett.) Sledge 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia glabra (Desv.) Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia hastata (Houtt.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia heteractis (Mett. ex Kuhn) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia heterophylla (L.) M.G.Price 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia kinabaluensis Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia laevis (J.Sm. ex Bedd.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia lanceolatus (L.) Farw. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia mannii (Giesenh.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia matsudai (Hayata) Tagawa 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia niphoboloides (Baker) M.G.Price 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia novoguineae (Christ) M.G.Price 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia nummulariifolia (Sw.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia pannosa (Mett. ex Kuhn) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia penangiana (Hook.) Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia petiolosa (Christ) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia platyphylla Hovenkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia polydactyla (Hance) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia princeps (Mett.) C.V.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia rasamalae (Racib.) K.H.Shing 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia samarensis (Mett.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia sarthalensis S.Singh, Sneha & B.Singh 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia similis Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia sphaerosticha (Mett.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia spissa (Bory ex Willd.) Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia splendens (Presl) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia stenophylla (Bedd.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia stigmosa (Sw.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia stolzii (Hieron.) Schelpe 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia subfurfuracea (Hook.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrrosia tricholepis (Carruth.) Ching 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.