Sticherus furcatus(L.) Ching

WFO wfo-0001277514 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Sticherus furcatus, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. a Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-10-26 / obs. 27295952
Sticherus furcatus, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. b Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28562517
Sticherus furcatus, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27295975
Sticherus furcatus, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. d Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28562484
Sticherus furcatus, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. e Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12603976
Sticherus furcatus, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. f Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27295962

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Sticherus furcatus is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaragua Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Sticherus furcatus, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
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 10 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.

  • Acrostichum furcatum L.
  • Dicranopteris furcata (L.) Underw.
  • Dicranopteris palmata (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.) Underw.
  • Gleichenia furcata (L.) Spreng.
  • Gleichenia palmata (Schaffn.) T.Moore
  • Mertensia furcata (L.) Willd.
  • Mertensia palmata W.Schaffn. ex Fée
  • Mertensia palmata W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.
  • Polypodium furcatum (L.) Sw.
  • Sticherus palmatus (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.) Copel.

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.