Sceptridium schaffneri(Underw.) Lyon

WFO wfo-0001121644 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.

Sceptridium schaffneri, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. a Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-10-04 / obs. 65905687
Sceptridium schaffneri, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. b Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65905691
Sceptridium schaffneri, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. c Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65905662
Sceptridium schaffneri, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. d Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65905652

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Sceptridium schaffneri is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPeru
Native distribution of Sceptridium schaffneri, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Peru PER
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 4 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.

  • Botrychium pusillum Underw.
  • Botrychium schaffneri Underw.
  • Botrychium schaffneri var. pusillum (Underw.) R.T.Clausen
  • Sceptridium pusillum (Underw.) Lyon

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.