Microlepia

<i>Microlepia</i>

Microlepia

Genus of ferns

Microlepia is a genus of ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae described as a genus in 1836.[3][2] Most of the species are native to Asia, with many endemic to China, although a few species occur also in Australia, Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and various oceanic islands.[2][4][5]

Species[6]
  • Microlepia ampla - Hainan
  • Microlepia angustipinna - Yunnan
  • Microlepia aspidioides
  • Microlepia attenuata - Fujian
  • Microlepia calvescens - China, India, Vietnam
  • Microlepia caudifolia - Yunnan
  • Microlepia caudiformis - Yunnan
  • Microlepia caudipinnata - Guangdong
  • Microlepia chingii - Hainan
  • Microlepia chrysocarpa - Chongqing, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan
  • Microlepia communis - Yunnan
  • Microlepia crassa - Yunnan
  • Microlepia crenata - Yunnan
  • Microlepia crenatoserrata - Yunnan
  • Microlepia critica - Guangxi
  • Microlepia firma - Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
  • Microlepia flaccida - Australia
  • Microlepia formosana - Taiwan
  • Microlepia fujianensis - Fujian
  • Microlepia ganlanbaensis - Yunnan
  • Microlepia gigantea - Yunnan
  • Microlepia glabra - Sichuan
  • Microlepia hainanensis - Hainan
  • Microlepia hancei - China, Bhutan, India, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Nepal, Vietnam
  • Microlepia herbacea - Vietnam
  • Microlepia hirsuta - Luzon
  • Microlepia hispida - Yunnan, Vietnam
  • Microlepia hookeriana - China, Borneo, N India, Indonesia, Ryukyu Islands, Malaysia, Nepal, Vietnam
  • Microlepia intermedia - Guangxi
  • Microlepia jamaicensis - Cuba, Jamaica
  • Microlepia japonica - Japan
  • Microlepia kansuensis - Gansu
  • Microlepia khasiyana - India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, China
  • Microlepia kurzii - Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
  • Microlepia kwangtungensis - Guangdong
  • Microlepia lofoushanensis - Guangdong
  • Microlepia longipilosa - Yunnan
  • Microlepia madagascariensis - Madagascar
  • Microlepia marginalis - India
  • Microlepia marginata - China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Microlepia matthewii - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Vietnam
  • Microlepia medogensis - Tibet
  • Microlepia membranacea - Guangdong, Hunan
  • Microlepia modesta - Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
  • Microlepia mollifolia - Taiwan
  • Microlepia neostrigosa - Yunnan
  • Microlepia obtusiloba - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Vietnam
  • Microlepia omeiensis - Sichuan
  • Microlepia pallida - Guangdong, Guangxi
  • Microlepia paucipinnata - Guangdong
  • Microlepia phanerophlebia - Vietnam
  • Microlepia pilosissima - Yunnan
  • Microlepia pingpienensis - Yunnan
  • Microlepia pinnata - SE Asia, India, Taiwan, New Guinea
  • Microlepia platyphylla - S China, Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Philippines
  • Microlepia polypodioides - Himalayas
  • Microlepia pseudostrigosa - Japan, Vietnam, China
  • Microlepia puberula - Thailand, Borneo
  • Microlepia rhomboidea - China, Himalayas, SE Asia
  • Microlepia scabra - Himalayas
  • Microlepia scyphoformis - Hainan
  • Microlepia setosa - Japan
  • Microlepia singpienensis - Yunnan
  • Microlepia sinostrigosa - Sichuan
  • Microlepia speluncae - SE Asia, S China, Indian Subcontinent, Australia, Africa, West Indies, Brazil, Polynesia--
  • Microlepia straminea - Yunnan
  • Microlepia strigosa - SE Asia, S China, Pacific Islands
  • Microlepia subrhomboidea - Yunnan
  • Microlepia subspeluncae - Yunnan
  • Microlepia substrigosa - Taiwan, Japan
  • Microlepia subtrichosticha - Hainan
  • Microlepia szechuanica - Sichuan
  • Microlepia taiwaniana - Taiwan
  • Microlepia tenella - Guangxi, Guizhou, Taiwan, Yunnan
  • Microlepia todayensis - SE Asia, S China
  • Microlepia trapeziformis - SE Asia, S China, India
  • Microlepia trichocarpa - China, Nepal, Darjeeling
  • Microlepia trichoclada - Yunnan
  • Microlepia trichosora - Yunnan
  • Microlepia tripinnata - Yunnan
  • Microlepia villosa - Nepal
  • Microlepia wentongensis - Guangdong
  • Microlepia yunnanensis - Yunnan

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References

  1. [1]
    lectotype designated by J. Smith, Hist. Filicum 260 (1875).
  2. [2]
    Tropicos, Microlepia C. Presl
  3. [3]
    Presl, Carl Bořivoj. 1836. Tentamen Pteridographiae 124–125, pl. 4, f. 21–23
  4. [4]
    Flora of China Vol. 2-3 Page 158 鳞盖蕨属 lin gai jue shu Microlepia C. Presl
  5. [5]
    Smith, A. R., K. M. Pryer, E. Schuettpelz, P. Korall, H. Schneider & P. Wolff. 2006. A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 705–731
  6. [6]
    The Plant List, search for Microlepia
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