climbing ferns
Lygodium
Lygodium (climbing fern) is a genus of about 40 species of ferns, native to tropical regions across the world, with a few temperate species in eastern Asia and eastern North America. It is the sole genus in the family Lygodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Lygodioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae, the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019. Per recent molecular evidence, Lygodiaceae is thought to have diverged relatively early from the other members of the Schizaeales due to the relatively high level of synonymous sequence divergence between the families within the Schizaeales.
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Japanese climbing fern
speciesLygodium japonicum
Climbing Maidenhair
speciesLygodium microphyllum
Hartford fern
speciesLygodium palmatum
monarch climbing fern
speciesLygodium venustum
Flexuose Climbing Fern
speciesLygodium flexuosum
mangemange
speciesLygodium articulatum
Red Finger Fern
speciesLygodium circinnatum
Lygodium volubile
speciesLygodium volubile
Lygodium reticulatum
speciesLygodium reticulatum
Lygodium longifolium
speciesLygodium longifolium
Lygodium polystachyum
speciesLygodium polystachyum
Lygodium lanceolatum
speciesLygodium lanceolatum
Climbing Maidenhair Fern
speciesLygodium scandens
Lygodium salicifolium
speciesLygodium salicifolium
Lygodium heterodoxum
speciesLygodium heterodoxum
Lygodium radiatum
speciesLygodium radiatum
Lygodium kerstenii
speciesLygodium kerstenii
Lygodium auriculatum
speciesLygodium auriculatum
Lygodium cubense
speciesLygodium cubense
Lygodium smithianum
speciesLygodium smithianum
Lygodium yunnanense
speciesLygodium yunnanense
Lygodium hians
speciesLygodium hians
Lygodium borneense
speciesLygodium borneense
Lygodium merrillii
speciesLygodium merrillii
Lygodium × fayae
hybridLygodium × fayae
Lygodium dimorphum
speciesLygodium dimorphum
Lygodium boivinii
speciesLygodium boivinii
Lygodium oligostachyum
speciesLygodium oligostachyum
Lygodium trifurcatum
speciesLygodium trifurcatum
Lygodium × lancetillanum
hybridLygodium × lancetillanum
Lygodium versteegii
speciesLygodium versteegii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82573.