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The genus Dryopteris is in the family Dryopteridaceae in the major group Pteridophytes (Ferns and fern allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Dryopteris

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Dryopteris abbreviatipinna (Kodama in Matsum.) Makino & Ogata ex Makino	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris abortiva (Blume) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris acutidens Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris acutodentata Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris adaucta Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris alpestris Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris alpicola Ching & Z.R. Wang	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris amboinensis (Willd.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris amoena Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris amurensis (Milde) Takeda	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris angustifrons (T. Moore) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris angustodissecta Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris arguta (Kaulf.) Maxon	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris arisanensis Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris aristulata Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris assamensis (C. Hope) C. Chr. & Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris athamantica (Kunze) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris atrata (Wall. ex Kunze) Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris aureo-viridis Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris auriculata (L.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris azorica (H. Christ) Alston	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris barbigera (T. Moore ex Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris basilaris (C. Presl) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris blanfordii (C. Hope) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris bodinieri (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris braineoides (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cacaina Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris calva Copel.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris campyloptera (Kunze) Clarkson	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris caroli-hopei Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P. Fuchs	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris caucasica Fraser-Jenk. & Corley	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris celsa (W. Palmer) Knowlt., Palmer & Pollard	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris championii (Benth.) C. Chr. ex Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris chinensis (Baker) Koidz.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris chrysocoma (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ciliata (Wall. ex Benth.) C. Chr. ex Y.C. Wu, K. Wong & Pong	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cinnamomea (Cav.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris clintoniana (D.C. Eaton) Dowell	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris coalescens (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cochleata (D. Don) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris commixta Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris conjugata Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris consimilis (Fée ex Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris coreano-montana Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris costalisora Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris crassirhizoma Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris crenulaea (Jenman) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cucullata (Blume) H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cycadina (Franch. & Sav.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris cyclopeltidiformis C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris × daliensis Z.R. Wang	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris decipiens (Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris dehuaensis Ching & K.H. Shing	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris deparioides (T. Moore) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris dickinsii (Franch. & Sav.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris dilatata (Hoffm.) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris dissidens (Mett.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris duclouxii H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris elongata (Wall. ex Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris enneaphylla (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris erythrosora (D.C. Eaton) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris esquirolii H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris expansa (C. Presl) Fraser-Jenk. & Jermy	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris fibrillosa (Baker) H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris fibrillosissima Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris firmifolia (Baker) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris flaccida (Blume) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris formosana (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schott	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris fructuosa (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris fuscipes C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris futura A.R. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris gemmipara (C. Chr.) Maxon ex Proctor	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris glabrior Ching & Z.Y. Liu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris glandulosa (Blume) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris glaziovii (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris goeringiana (Kunze) Koidz.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris gonggaensis H.S. Kung, L.B. Zhang & X.S. Guo	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris gracilis (Moore) Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris guangxiensis S.G. Lu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris gymnophylla (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris gymnopteridifrons Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris gymnosora (Makino) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris habaensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris handeliana C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris hangchowensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris himachalensis Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris hirtipes (Blume) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris hondoensis Koidz.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris huangshanensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris huberi (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris hunanica Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ilicifolium (D. Don) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris immersa (Blume) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris immixta Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris impressa (Desv.) Posth.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris inaequalis (Schltdl.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris incisa (Sw.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris incisolobata Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris incrassata (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris indusiata (Makino) Makino & Yamam.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ingens (Atk. ex C.B. Clarke) Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris integriloba C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris izuensis Kodama	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris jinfoshanensis Ching & Z.Y. Liu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris juergensii (Rosenst.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris juxtaposita H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris karwinskyana (Mett.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris kinkiensis Koidz. ex Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris knoblochii A.R. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris komarovii Kossinsky	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris kwanzanensis Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris labordei (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lacera (Thunb.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lachoongensis (Bedd.) B.K. Nayar & S. Kaur	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lakhimpurensis Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris late-repens (Trotter & C. Hope) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris latibasis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lepidopoda Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lepidorachis C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris linkwangensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris liyangensis Ching & Y.C. Lan	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ludoviciana (Kunze) Small	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lunanensis (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lungquanensis Ching & P.C. Chiu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lungshanensis Ching & P.C. Chiu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris lustrata (Hieron.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris macgregorii (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris macrochlamys (Fée) Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris mangindranensis Tardieu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris manniana (Hook.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris marginata (C.B. Clarke) H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris maxonii Underw. & C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris megacarpa Ching & Z.Y. Liu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris melanocarpa Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris metcalfei (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris microlepis (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris mindshelkensis Pavlov	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris mollissima (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris monticola (Makino) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris montigena Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris morrisonensis (Hayata) Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris munchii A.R. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris myriolepis (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris namegatae (Sa. Kurata) Sa. Kurata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris neolepidopoda Ching & S.K. Wu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris neorosthorni Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris nigropaleacea (Fraser-Jenk.) Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris nobilis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris nokoensis Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris nubigena Maxon & C.V. Morton	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris nyingchiensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris obtusata (Sw.) Ballard	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ochthodes (Kunze) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris oreades Fomin	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris oshimensis (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris otarioides (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris oxyodon (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pacifica (Nakai) Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris paleifera Ching & Z.Y. Liu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris panda (C.B. Clarke) H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris parachinensis Ching & F.Z. Li	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris paralunanensis W.M. Chu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris patula (Sw.) Underw.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pauciflora (Hook.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris peninsulae Kitag.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pentheri (Krasser) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris philippinensis (Baker) Copel.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris podophylla (Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris polita Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris polylepis (Franch. & Sav.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris polypodiforme (Makino) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris porosa Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pseudofilix-mas (Fée) Rothm.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pseudomas Holub & Pouzar	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pseudosparsa Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pseudovaria (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pteridiiformis H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pulcherrima Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pulvinulifera (Bedd.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris pycnopteroides (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris raddeana Fomin	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ramosa (C. Hope) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris redactopinnata S.K. Basu & Panigrahi	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris reflexa Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris reflexosquamata Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris remota (A. Braun) Hayek	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris remotipinnula Bonap.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris repentula C.B. Clarke ex H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris retusa (Sw.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris rhizophylla (Sw.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ridleyi (Bedd.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris rossii C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris rosthornii (Diels) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris rubrobrunnea W.M. Chu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris ryo-itoana Sa. Kurata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sacrosancta Koidz.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sasaki Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris saxatilis (R.P. St. John) M. Broun	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris saxifraga H. Itô	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris scalpturoides (Fée) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris schizoloma (Alderw.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris scolopendrioides (Sw.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris scottii (Bedd.) Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sericea C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris serratodentata (Bedd.) Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris setosa (Thunb.) Akas.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris shandongensis J.X. Li & F. Li	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris shanmenensis Ching & P.C. Chiu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris shuichangensis P.C. Chiu & G.H. Yao	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sieboldii (T. Moore) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sikkimensis (Bedd.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris simasakii (H. Itô) Sa. Kurata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris simozawae Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sinofibrillosa Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sintenisii (Kuhn & H. Christ) Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris somai Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sordidipes Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sparsa (D. Don) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris splendens (Wall. ex Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris squamaestipes (C.B. Clarke) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris squamifera Ching & S.K. Wu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris squamiseta (Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris stegnogramme C.Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris stenolepis (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris striata (K. Schum.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subatrata Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subcrenulata (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subexaltata (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subglandulosa Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subimpressa Loyal	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sublacera H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sublaeta Ching & Y.P. Hsu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris sublaxa Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris submarginata Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris submontana Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subpycnopteroides Ching ex Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subsageniacea (H. Christ) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subtriangularis (C. Hope) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris subtripinnata (Miq.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris supraimpressa Ching, Boufford & Shing in B. M. Barthol. et al.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tahmingensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tarningensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tenerrima (Fée) Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tenuicula C.G. Matthew & H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tenuifrons Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tenuipes (Rosenst.) Seriz.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris thibetica (Franch.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tieanzuensis Ching & P.C. Chiu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tieluensis Ching & Y.P. Hsu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tijuccana (C. Chr.) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tingiensis Ching & S.K. Wu ex Fraser-Jenk.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris toangpoensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tokyoensis (Matsum. ex Makino) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris toyamae Tagawa	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tridens (T. Moore ex Hook.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris trinidadensis (Jenman) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tsoongii Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris tuberculifera C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris unca (R.P. St. John) M. Broun	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris uniformis (Makino) Makino	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris uraiensis Rosenst.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris varia (L.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris velata (Kunze) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris wakefieldii (Baker) C. Chr.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris wallichiana (Spreng.) Alston & Bonner	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris wenchuanensis H.S. Kung	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris woodsiisora Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris wuliangshanicola W.M. Chu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris wuyishanica Ching & P.C. Chiu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris xiangxinensis S.F. Wu & C.M. Zhang	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris xunwuensis Ching & K.H. Shing	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris xylodes (Kunze) H. Christ	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris yenpingensis C. Chr. & Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris yigongensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris yongdeensis W.M. Chu	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris yoroii Seriz.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris yungtzeensis Ching	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris yunnanensis (H. Christ) Copel.	Accepted		TRO
Dryopteris zhangii Ching	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,808 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Dryopteris. Of these 286 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 207 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Dryopteris. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,808 species names for the genus Dryopteris recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	286	15.8%
◕	Synonym	512	28.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1,010	55.9%

All names

The status of the 2,015 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Dryopteris recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	313	15.5%
◕	Synonym	675	33.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1,027	51.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 1,808 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Dryopteris, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	285	499	0	0	784	43.4%
	Low confidence	1	13	0	1,010	1,024	56.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Dryopteris, are as follows: