Microgramma mauritiana(Willd.) Tardieu

WFO wfo-0001108679 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

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.

Microgramma mauritiana, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. a Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-07-04 / obs. 21328915
Microgramma mauritiana, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. b Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21328879
Microgramma mauritiana, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. c Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21329150
Microgramma mauritiana, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. d Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21329168

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Microgramma mauritiana is native: Angola, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Comoros, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe AngolaCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEswatiniGabonGhanaGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLiberiaMadagascarMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneTanzaniaTogoUgandaZimbabwe ComorosMauritiusRéunion
Native distribution of Microgramma mauritiana, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Comoros COM
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Eswatini SWZ
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Mauritius MAU
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 17 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.

  • Anapeltis lycopodioides var. owariensis (Desv.) Benl
  • Anapeltis owariensis J.Sm.
  • Craspedaria borbonica Fée
  • Goniophlebium myrtillifolium (Kaulf.) T.Moore
  • Goniophlebium owariense Lodd.
  • Microgramma owariensis (Desv.) Alston
  • Microgramma owariensis f. nana G.Kunkel
  • Microsorum owariense Alston
  • Polypodium anguinum Peter
  • Polypodium lagopodioides Desv.
  • Polypodium ligustrifolium Desv.
  • Polypodium lycopodioides var. mackenii (Baker) Sim
  • Polypodium lycopodioides var. myrtillifolium (Kaulf.) C.Chr.
  • Polypodium mackenii Baker
  • Polypodium mauritianum Willd.
  • Polypodium myrtillifolium Kaulf.
  • Polypodium owariense Desv.

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.

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.