Galapagos Species Database

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Megalastrum pleiosoros (Hook. f.) A.R. Sm. & R.C. Moran

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Megalastrum pleiosoros (Hook. f.) A.R. Sm. & R.C. Moran Photo: Joseph Weirich, CDF, 2012.
Megalastrum pleiosoros (Hook. f.) A.R. Sm. & R.C. Moran Photo: Joseph Weirich, CDF, 2012.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Pteridophyta

Class
Pteridopsida

Order
Dryopteridales

Family
Dryopteridaceae

Genus
Megalastrum

Species
pleiosoros

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Ctenitis pleiosoros (Hook. f.) C.V. Morton, Dryopteris pleiosoros (Hook. f.) Svenson, Polypodium pleiosoros Hook.f. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). In Robinson as Nephrodium villosum and as Polypodium pleiosorum

Origin: Endemic

Status

Near threatened

References

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  • Nowak, J.B. (1987) Final report on studies in burnt area, Sierra Negra, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands Ecuador. Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished.
  • 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.
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  • 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).
  • Andersson, N.J. (1855) Om Galápagos Öarnes Vegetation. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handl., Stockholm: 61-256.
  • Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
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  • Jäger, H. Tye, A., Kowarik, I. (2007) Tree invasion in naturally treeless environments: Impacts of quinine (Cinchona pubescens) trees on native vegetation in Galápagos Institute of Ecology, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Plant Ecology, Technical University Berlin, Rothenburgstr. 12, 12165 Berlin, Germany.
  • Moran, R. (2016) Bolbitis occidentalis (Dryopteridaceae), a new species from the western side of the Andes of Ecuador Brittonia, The New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx. 1-7.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Megalastrum pleiosoros", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=45. Accessed 25 June 2025.