Lepisorus


Lepisorus is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Microsoroideae, according to the Pteridophyte [Phylogeny Group] classification of 2016.

Taxonomy

Lepisorus was first described by John Smith in 1846 as the section Lepisorus of the genus Drynaria. It was raised from a section to a genus by Ren-Chang Ching in 1933. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2019 suggested that Lepisorus was one of a group of closely related genera in the subfamily Microsoroideae, a group the authors termed "Lepisorus sensu lato".

Species

, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species:
, Plants of the World Online sank the monotypic Paragramma into Lepisorus, thus including the sole species Paragramma longifolia as Lepisorus longifolius.