Sceptridium

Accepted species 28 Documented here 12 Family Ophioglossaceae

Accepted species 28 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
Sceptridium multifidum (S.G.Gmel.) M.Nishida 650 documented
Sceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon 589 documented
Sceptridium biternatum (Savigny) Lyon 207 documented
Sceptridium japonicum (Prantl) Lyon 28 documented
Sceptridium biforme (Colenso) Lyon 27 documented
Sceptridium oneidense (Gilbert) Holub 25 documented
Sceptridium formosanum (Tagawa) Holub 16 documented
Sceptridium robustum Lyon 13 documented
Sceptridium ternatum (Thunb.) Lyon 13 documented
Sceptridium australe (R.Br.) Lyon 10 documented
Sceptridium lunarioides (Michx.) Holub 10 documented
Sceptridium schaffneri (Underw.) Lyon 4 documented
Sceptridium decompositum (M.Martens & Galeotti) Lyon 1 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium × argutum Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium × elegans Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium × longistipitatum Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium × pulchrum Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium atrovirens Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium daucifolium (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Lyon 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium javanicum Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium jenmanii (Underw.) Lyon 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium microphyllum Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium nipponicum (Makino) Holub 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium rugulosum (W.H.Wagner) Skoda 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium silvicola (Sahashi) comb. ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium subbifoliatum (Brack.) Lyon 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium triangularifolium Sahashi 0 below the evidence gate
Sceptridium underwoodianum (Maxon) Lyon 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.