Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Polystichum orbiculatum
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Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Dryopteridales
Family
Dryopteridaceae
Genus
Polystichum
Species
orbiculatum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Polystichum gelidum (Kunze ex Klotzsch) Fée fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). In Stewart (1911) as Polystichum aculeatum fide Wiggins & Porter (1971)
- 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.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Polystichum orbiculatum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15749. Accessed 1 November 2026.