Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Thelypteris kunthii
helecho, Kunth's maiden fern, river fern, Southern shield fern
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Athyriales
Family
Thelypteridaceae
Genus
Thelypteris
Species
kunthii
Taxon category: Accepted
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- 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).
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Thelypteris kunthii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16585. Accessed 14 May 2025.