Sticherus revolutus(Kunth) Ching

WFO wfo-0001112017 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

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.

Sticherus revolutus, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. a Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2013-06-26 / obs. 12567248
Sticherus revolutus, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12567249
Sticherus revolutus, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12567251
Sticherus revolutus, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12567241
Sticherus revolutus, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12567247

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Sticherus revolutus is native: Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicEcuadorGuyanaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Sticherus revolutus, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
Guyana GUY
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

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 16 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.

  • Dicranopteris affinis Maxon
  • Dicranopteris costaricensis Underw.
  • Dicranopteris revoluta (Kunth) Maxon
  • Gleichenia affinis Mett. ex Kuhn
  • Gleichenia affinis var. bogotensis Hieron.
  • Gleichenia affinis var. glabra Kuhn
  • Gleichenia affinis var. packensis Hieron.
  • Gleichenia costaricensis (Underw.) C.Chr.
  • Gleichenia revoluta Kunth
  • Gleichenia subandina Sodiro
  • Mertensia revoluta Desv.
  • Mertensia subflabellata Brack.
  • Sticherus affinis (Mett. ex Kuhn) Nakai
  • Sticherus affinis var. bogotensis (Hieron.) Nakai
  • Sticherus costaricensis (Underw.) Chrysler
  • Sticherus subandinus (Sodiro) Nakai

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.