Steiropteris

Accepted species 28 Documented here 0 Family Thelypteridaceae

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
Steiropteris deltoidea (Sw.) Pic.Serm. 2 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris decussata (L.) A.R.Sm. 1 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris alstonii Salino & A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris buchtienii (A.R.Sm.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris clypeolutata (Desv.) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris comosa (C.V.Morton) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris connexa (Kuhn ex Baker) comb. ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris fendleri (D.C.Eaton) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris gardneriana (Baker) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris glabra A.R.Sm. & M.Kessler 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris glandulosa (Desv.) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris hatschbachii (A.R.Sm.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris hottensis (C.Chr.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris insignis (Mett.) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris leprieurii (Hook.) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris lonchodes (D.C.Eaton) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris mexiae (C.Chr. ex Copel.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris nana (A.Rojas) A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris parva (A.R.Sm. & M.Kessler) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris pennellii (A.R.Sm.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris polyphlebia (C.Chr.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris polypodioides (Raddi) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris praetervisa (Kuhn) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris seemannii (J.Sm.) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris setulosa (A.R.Sm.) A.R.Sm. & S.E.Fawc. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris valdepilosa (Baker) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris villosa (Link) Salino & T.E.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Steiropteris wrightii (Mett. ex D.C.Eaton) Pic.Serm. 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.