| Lepisorus | |
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| Lepisorus thunbergianus in Japan | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Division: | Polypodiophyta | 
| Class: | Polypodiopsida | 
| Order: | Polypodiales | 
| Suborder: | Polypodiineae | 
| Family: | Polypodiaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Microsoroideae | 
| Genus: | Lepisorus (J.Sm.) Ching[1]  | 
| Species | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lepisorus is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Microsoroideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[3]
Taxonomy
Lepisorus was first described by John Smith in 1846 as the section Lepisorus of the genus Drynaria.[2] It was raised from a section to a genus by Ren-Chang Ching in 1933.[1] 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".[4]
| Lepisorus s.l. | 
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Species
As of February 2020, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species:[1]
- Lepisorus abbreviatus (Fée) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus accedens (Blume) Hosok.
 - Lepisorus affinis Ching
 - Lepisorus albertii (Regel) Ching
 - Lepisorus amaurolepidus (Sledge) Bir & Trikha
 - Lepisorus annamensis (C.Chr.) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus annuifrons (Makino) Ching
 - Lepisorus balteiformis (Brause) Hovenkamp
 - Lepisorus bicolor (Takeda) Ching
 - Lepisorus boninensis Ching
 - Lepisorus cespitosus Y.X.Lin
 - Lepisorus clathratus (C.B.Clarke) Ching
 - Lepisorus confluens W.M.Chu
 - Lepisorus contortus (Christ) Ching
 - Lepisorus crassipes Ching & Y.X.Lin
 - Lepisorus eilophyllus (Diels) Ching
 - Lepisorus elegans Ching & W.M.Chu
 - Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching
 - Lepisorus hachijoensis Sa. Kurata
 - Lepisorus henryi (Hieron. ex C.Chr.) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus heterolepis (Rosenst.) Ching
 - Lepisorus jakonensis (Blanf.) Ching
 - Lepisorus kawakamii (Hayata) Tagawa
 - Lepisorus kolesnikovii (Tzvelev) Shmakov
 - Lepisorus kuchenensis (Y.C.Wu) Ching
 - Lepisorus kuratae T.Fujiw. & Seriz.
 - Lepisorus lewisii (Baker) Ching
 - Lepisorus likiangensis Ching & S.K.Wu
 - Lepisorus lineariformis Ching & S.K.Wu
 - Lepisorus loriformis (Wall. ex Mett.) Ching
 - Lepisorus luchunensis Y.X.Lin
 - Lepisorus macrosphaerus (Baker) Ching
 - Lepisorus mamas Hovenkamp
 - Lepisorus marginatus Ching
 - Lepisorus medogensis Ching & Y.X.Lin
 - Lepisorus megasorus (C.Chr.) Ching
 - Lepisorus mehrae Fraser-Jenk.
 - Lepisorus mikawanus Kurata
 - Lepisorus miyoshianus (Makino) Fraser-Jenk. & Subh.Chandra
 - Lepisorus monilisorus (Hayata) Tagawa
 - Lepisorus morrisonensis (Hayata) H.Itô
 - Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus nigripes T.Fujiw. & Seriz.
 - Lepisorus novoguineensis (Rosenst.) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus nudus (Hook.) Ching
 - Lepisorus obscurevenulosus (Hayata) Ching
 - Lepisorus oligolepidus (Baker) Ching
 - Lepisorus onoei (Franch. & Sav.) Ching
 - Lepisorus oosphaerus (C.Chr.) Ching
 - Lepisorus perrierianus (C.Chr.) Ching
 - Lepisorus platyrhynchos (J.Sm. ex Kunze) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus pseudonudus Ching
 - Lepisorus pseudoussuriensis Tagawa
 - Lepisorus schraderi (Mett.) Ching
 - Lepisorus scolopendrium (Ching) Mehra & Bir
 - Lepisorus sinensis (Christ) Ching
 - Lepisorus sordidus (C.Chr.) Ching
 - Lepisorus spicatus (L.f.) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus subconfluens Ching
 - Lepisorus sublinearis (Baker ex Takeda) Ching
 - Lepisorus suboligolepidus Ching
 - Lepisorus subsessile Ching & Y.X.Lin
 - Lepisorus thaipaiensis Ching & S.K.Wu
 - Lepisorus thunbergianus (Kaulf.) Ching
 - Lepisorus tosaensis (Makino) H.Itô
 - Lepisorus tricholepis K.H.Shing & Y.X.Lin
 - Lepisorus uchiyamae (Makino) H.Itô
 - Lepisorus ussuriensis (Regel & Mack.) Ching
 - Lepisorus validinervis (Kunze) Li Wang
 - Lepisorus yamaokae Seriz.
 
As of February 2020, Plants of the World Online sank the monotypic Paragramma into Lepisorus, thus including the sole species Paragramma longifolia as Lepisorus longifolius.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020), "Lepisorus", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, Version 8.20, retrieved 2020-02-10
 - 1 2 Qi, Xin‐Ping & Zhang, Xian‐Chun (2009), "Taxonomic revision of Lepisorus (J. Sm.) Ching sect. Lepisorus (Polypodiaceae) from China", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 47 (6): 581–598, doi:10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00056.x, S2CID 84807150
 - ↑ PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
 - ↑ Testo, Weston L.; Field, Ashley R.; Sessa, Emily B. & Sundue, Michael (2019), "Phylogenetic and Morphological Analyses Support the Resurrection of Dendroconche and the Recognition of Two New Genera in Polypodiaceae Subfamily Microsoroideae" (PDF), Systematic Botany, 44 (4): 737–752, doi:10.1600/036364419X15650157948607, S2CID 208176686, retrieved 2020-02-11
 - ↑ "Paragramma longifolia T.Moore", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-02-10
 
