Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Rumohra adiantiformis
helecho hoja de cuero, helecho cuero, leather fern, leathery shieldfern

Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Dryopteridales
Family
Dryopteridaceae
Genus
Rumohra
Species
adiantiformis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Aspidium coriaceum (Sw.) Sw., Polypodium adiantiforme G. Forst., Polystichum adiantiforme (G. Forst.) J. Sm. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Porter, D.M. (1983) Vascular Plants of the Galapagos: Origins and Dispersal. In: Bowman, R.I., Berson, M. & Leviton, A.E. (eds.): Patterns of evolution in Galápagos organisms. Pacific Division, AAAS, San Francisco, California, p. 33-96.
- Van der Werff, H.H. (s.a.) Pers. obs. and colls. Personal observations and collections.
- Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, Rumohra adiantiformis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=94/1000. Accessed 13 May 2025.