Pyrrosia piloselloides

Pyrrosia piloselloides

Pyrrosia piloselloides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Familia: Polypodiaceae
Subfamilia: Platycerioideae
Genus: Pyrrosia
Species: Pyrrosia piloselloides

Name

Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) M.G.Price in Kalikasan 3: 176 (1974)

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Drymoglossum piloselloides (L.) C.Presl in Tent. Pterid.: 227 (1836)
  • Elaphoglossum piloselloides (L.) Keyserl. in Polyp. Herb. Bunge: 36 (1873), nom. illeg. homonym. post.
  • Lemmaphyllum piloselloides (L.) Luerss. in Bot. Centralbl. 3: 78 (1882)
  • Oetosis piloselloides (L.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 817 (1891)
  • Pteropsis piloselloides (L.) Desv. in Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 218 (1827)
  • Notholaena piloselloides (L.) Kaulf. in Enum. Filic.: 133 (1824)
  • Pteris piloselloides L. in Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 1530 (1763)
  • Taenitis piloselloides (L.) Mett. in Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips.: 28 (1856)
• Homotypic
  • Drymoglossum assamense Gand. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 66: 306 (1920)
  • Drymoglossum piloselloides var. platycerioides Teruya in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 1: 197, 199 (1932)
  • Drymoglossum rotundifolium C.Presl in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 6: 157 (1851)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continentalː Asia-tropical Regionalː Indian subcontinent Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India Regionalː Southestern Asia Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand Regionalː Indo-China Laos, Vietnam Regionalː China China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan Continentalː Asia-temperate Regionalː Eastern Asia Japan Continentalː Australasia Regionalː Papuasia New Guinea References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• M.G.Price, (1974) Kalikasan: Philippine Journal of Biology. Quezon City 3:176.

Additional references

• Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364.
• Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2026. Pyrrosia piloselloides in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2026 August 20. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2026. Pyrrosia piloselloides. Published online. Accessed: August 20 2026. Reference page.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Pyrrosia piloselloides in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• Bahasa Indonesia: Sisik naga

For more multimedia, look at Pyrrosia piloselloides on Wikimedia Commons.