Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pleopeltis insularum
Helecho
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Polypodiaceae
Genus
Pleopeltis
Species
insularum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Polypodium insularum (C.V. Morton) de la Sota (Hassler, 2022; GBIF, 2021);
Origin: Endemic
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- Hassler, M. (2022) World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World Hassler, M. (2022). World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Version 12.11; last update March 7th, 2022. www.worldplants.de/ferns/.
- 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.
- Smith, A.R. Tejero-Díez, J.D. (2014) Pleopeltis (Polypodiaceae), a redifinition of the genus and nomenclatural novelties. Smith, A.R. & Tejero-Díez, J.D. (2014). Pleopeltis (Polypodiaceae), a redifinition of the genus and nomenclatural novelties. Botanical Sciences, 92(1), 43-58.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pleopeltis insularum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20458. Accessed 16 October 2026.