Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bryopteris filicina
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Marchantiophyta
Class
Jungermanniopsida
Order
Porellales
Family
Lejeuneaceae
Genus
Bryopteris
Species
filicina
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Bryopteris fruticulosa, B. galapagona, B. liebmanniana (Tropicos.org, 2017; CNABH, 2022), B. longispica, B. tenuicaulis, B. trinitensis, Jungermannia filicina
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Arnell, S. (1961) Hepaticae. In: Bartram, E.B. & Arnell, S. (eds.): Bryophytes of the Galápagos islands collected principally by Gunnar Harling in 1959. The Bryologist 64: 248-249.
- Clark, L. (1953) Some Hepaticae from Galapagos, Cocos, and other Pacific coast islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series 27 (18): 593-623.
- CNABH (2022) Bryophyte Portal CNABH Portal. (2022).Bryophyte Portal. http//:bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.php
- Evans, A.W. (1902) Hepaticae. In: Robinson, B.L. (ed.): Flora of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the American Arts and Sciences 38: 100-101.
- Gradstein, S.R. (2009) Annotated catalogue of the liverworts and hornworts of the Galápagos Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica: Biodiversity and ecology of lichens - Liber Amicorum Harrie Sipman 99: 143-162.
- Gradstein, S.R. (2020) Checklist of the Liverworts and Hornworts of Ecuador Gradstein, S.R. (2020). Checklist of the Liverworts and Hornworts of Ecuador. Frahmia, 17, 1-40.
- Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
- Miquel, S.E. Bungartz, F. (2017) Snails found among herbarium specimens of Galapagos lichens and bryophytes, with the description of Scolodonta rinae (Gastropoda, Scolodontidae), a new species of carnivorous micro-mollusk Archiv für Molluskenkunde (in press).
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Weber, W.A. (1966) Lichenology and Bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with Check Lists of the Lichens and Bryophytes Thus Far Reported. In: Bowman, R.I. (ed.): The Galápagos. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 197-200.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bryopteris filicina", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2268. Accessed 1 November 2026.