Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pecluma dispersa
helecho, widespread rockcap fern, widespread polypody
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Polypodiaceae
Genus
Pecluma
Species
dispersa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Polypodium dispersum, fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). In Stewart (1911) and Svenson (1938) as Polypodium pectinatum fide Wiggins & Porter (1971).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.
- Svenson, H.K. Weatherby, C.A. (1938) Pteridophyta of the Galápagos Islands. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 65: 303-333.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pecluma dispersa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=83. Accessed 1 November 2026.