Pleopeltis furfuracea(Schltdl. & Cham.) A.R.Sm. & Tejero

WFO wfo-0001280383 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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.

Pleopeltis furfuracea, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. a Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-08-17 / obs. 10005621
Pleopeltis furfuracea, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. b Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10005624
Pleopeltis furfuracea, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. c Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10005631
Pleopeltis furfuracea, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. d Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 22866088
Pleopeltis furfuracea, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. e Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 22866094

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Pleopeltis furfuracea is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamá
Native distribution of Pleopeltis furfuracea, 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
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Costa Rica COS SOUTHERN AMERICA
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN

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 8 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.

  • Goniophlebium furfuraceum T.Moore
  • Lepicystis furfuracea Diels
  • Marginaria furfuracea C.Presl
  • Polypodium furfuraceum Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Polypodium furfuraceum var. coronulatum E.Fourn.
  • Polypodium macbridense Shimek
  • Polypodium margallii Rovirosa
  • Polypodium nivosum Fée

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.