Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Also published as 15 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.
- Aspidium africanum Asch. & Graebn.
- Aspidium totta (Schltdl.) Engl.
- Dryopteris africana (Desv.) C.Chr.
- Dryopteris totta (Schltdl.) Masam.
- Grammitis totta (Schltdl.) C.Presl
- Gymnogramma totta (Willd.) Schltdl.
- Lastrea africana (Desv.) Ching
- Lastrea africana (Desv.) Copel.
- Lastrea totta (Schlecht.) Ohwi
- Leptogramma africana (Desv.) Nakai ex T.Mori
- Nephrodium totta (Schltdl.) Diels
- Phegopteris totta (Schltdl.) Mett.
- Polypodium africanum Desv.
- Stegnogramma totta (Schltdl.) Dhir
- Thelypteris totta (Schltdl.) B.K.Nayar & Kaur
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.