Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Thelypteris tetragona subsp. aberrans
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Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Athyriales
Family
Thelypteridaceae
Genus
Thelypteris
Species
tetragona
Subspecies
subsp. aberrans
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
In Stewart (1911) as Dryopteris pseudotetragona, Svenson (1938) as Dryopteris tetragona, fide Wiggins & Porter (1971)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
- Jaramillo, P. (1998) Distribución Espacial de la Vegetación Vascular y Dispersión de Especies Introducidas dentro del Parque Nacional Galápagos. Tesis de Doctorado en Biología, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Especialización ECOLOGIA DE POBLACIONES.
- Morton, C.V. (1957) Ferns of the Galápagos Islands. Leafl. West. Bot. 8(8): 188-195.
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Svenson, H.K. Weatherby, C.A. (1938) Pteridophyta of the Galápagos Islands. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 65: 303-333.
- Van der Werff, H.H. (1977) Vascular plants from the Galápagos Islands: new records and taxonomic notes. Bot. Notiser 130(1): 89-100.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Thelypteris tetragona subsp. aberrans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=112. Accessed 31 October 2026.