Dicranopteris nervosa(Kaulf.) Maxon

WFO wfo-0001112041 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dicranopteris nervosa, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. a Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-12-16 / obs. 172573440
Dicranopteris nervosa, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. b Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172573445
Dicranopteris nervosa, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. c Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172573450
Dicranopteris nervosa, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. d Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172573459

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Dicranopteris nervosa is native: Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Guyana, Peru BoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastGuyanaPeru
Native distribution of Dicranopteris nervosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Guyana GUY
Peru PER

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dicranopteris nervosa (Kaulf.) Ching
  • Gleichenia dichotoma var. nervosa (Kaulf.) Baker
  • Gleichenia gaenslyi Rosenst.
  • Gleichenia nervosa (Kaulf.) Spreng.
  • Gleichenia nervosa var. cinnamomea Luetzelb.
  • Gleichenia nervosa var. latissima Rosenst.
  • Gleichenia nervosa var. lobato-crenata Rosenst.
  • Mertensia beyrichiana Sturm.
  • Mertensia cinnamomea Beyr. & Sturm.
  • Mertensia latissima Fée
  • Mertensia neglecta Sturm
  • Mertensia nervosa Kaulf.
  • Sticherus gaenslyi (Rosenst.) Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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