Woodsia

Accepted species 53 Documented here 14 Family Woodsiaceae

Accepted species 53 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
Woodsia obtusa (Sw.) Torr. 1,035 documented
Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R.Br. 328 documented
Woodsia scopulina D.C.Eaton 255 documented
Woodsia oregana D.C.Eaton 146 documented
Woodsia alpina (Bolton) Gray 45 documented
Woodsia glabella R.Br. 26 documented
Woodsia fragilis (Trevis.) T.Moore 18 documented
Woodsia phillipsii Windham 18 documented
Woodsia neomexicana Windham 12 documented
Woodsia polystichoides D.C.Eaton 10 documented
Woodsia plummerae Lemmon 6 documented
Woodsia manchuriensis Hook. 4 documented
Woodsia cochisensis Windham 3 documented
Woodsia subcordata Turcz. 3 documented
Woodsia calcarea (Fomin) Shmakov 1 below the evidence gate
Woodsia × abbeae Butters 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia × gracilis (G.Lawson) Butters 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia × kansana R.L.Brooks 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia × maxonii R.M.Tryon 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia × tryonis B.Boivin 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia andersonii (Bedd.) Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia angolensis Schelpe 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia asiatica Kiselev & Shmakov 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia burgessiana Gerrard ex Hook. & Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia canescens (Kunze) Mett. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia cinnamomea Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia cycloloba Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia cystopteroides Windham & Mickel 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia elongata Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia gorovoii Krestsch. & Shmakov 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia guizhouensis P.S.Wang, Q.Luo & Li Bing Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia hancockii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia indusiosa Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia kangdingensis H.S.Kung, Li Bing Zhang & X.S.Guo 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia kungiana Li Bing Zhang, N.T.Lu & X.F.Gao 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia lanosa Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia macrochlaena Mett. ex Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia macrospora C.Chr. & Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia mexicana Fée 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia mollis (Kaulf.) J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia montevidensis Hieron. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia nikkoensis H.Ogura & Nakaike 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia oblonga Ching & S.H.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia okamotoi Tagawa 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia pilosa Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia pseudopolystichoides (Fomin) Kiselev & Shmakov 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia pubescens Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia pulchella Bertol. 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia rosthorniana Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia shensiensis Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia sinica Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia taigischensis (Stepanov) Kuznetsov 0 below the evidence gate
Woodsia taishanensis F.Z.Li & C.K.Ni 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.