# Lepisorus

Lepisorus is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Microsoroideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).

## Taxonomy

Lepisorus was first described by John Smith in 1846 as the section Lepisorus of the genus Drynaria. It was raised from a section to a genus by Ren-Chang Ching in 1933. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2019 suggested that Lepisorus was one of a group of closely related genera in the subfamily Microsoroideae, a group the authors termed "Lepisorus sensu lato".

### Species

As of February 2020, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species:
* Lepisorus abbreviatus (Fée) Li Wang
* Lepisorus accedens (Blume) Hosok.
* Lepisorus affinis Ching
* Lepisorus albertii (Regel) Ching
* Lepisorus amaurolepidus (Sledge) Bir & Trikha
* Lepisorus annamensis (C.Chr.) Li Wang
* Lepisorus annuifrons (Makino) Ching
* Lepisorus balteiformis (Brause) Hovenkamp
* Lepisorus bicolor (Takeda) Ching
* Lepisorus boninensis Ching
* Lepisorus cespitosus Y.X.Lin
* Lepisorus clathratus (C.B.Clarke) Ching
* Lepisorus confluens W.M.Chu
* Lepisorus contortus (Christ) Ching
* Lepisorus crassipes Ching & Y.X.Lin
* Lepisorus eilophyllus (Diels) Ching
* Lepisorus elegans Ching & W.M.Chu
* Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching
* Lepisorus hachijoensis Sa. Kurata
* Lepisorus henryi (Hieron. ex C.Chr.) Li Wang
* Lepisorus heterolepis (Rosenst.) Ching
* Lepisorus jakonensis (Blanf.) Ching
* Lepisorus kawakamii (Hayata) Tagawa
* Lepisorus kolesnikovii (Tzvelev) Shmakov
* Lepisorus kuchenensis (Y.C.Wu) Ching
* Lepisorus kuratae T.Fujiw. & Seriz.
* Lepisorus lewisii (Baker) Ching
* Lepisorus likiangensis Ching & S.K.Wu
* Lepisorus lineariformis Ching & S.K.Wu
* Lepisorus loriformis (Wall. ex Mett.) Ching
* Lepisorus luchunensis Y.X.Lin
* Lepisorus macrosphaerus (Baker) Ching
* Lepisorus mamas Hovenkamp
* Lepisorus marginatus Ching
* Lepisorus medogensis Ching & Y.X.Lin
* Lepisorus megasorus (C.Chr.) Ching
* Lepisorus mehrae Fraser-Jenk.
* Lepisorus mikawanus Kurata
* Lepisorus miyoshianus (Makino) Fraser-Jenk. & Subh.Chandra
* Lepisorus monilisorus (Hayata) Tagawa
* Lepisorus morrisonensis (Hayata) H.Itô
* Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li Wang
* Lepisorus nigripes T.Fujiw. & Seriz.
* Lepisorus novoguineensis (Rosenst.) Li Wang
* Lepisorus nudus (Hook.) Ching
* Lepisorus obscurevenulosus (Hayata) Ching
* Lepisorus oligolepidus (Baker) Ching
* Lepisorus onoei (Franch. & Sav.) Ching
* Lepisorus oosphaerus (C.Chr.) Ching
* Lepisorus perrierianus (C.Chr.) Ching
* Lepisorus platyrhynchos (J.Sm. ex Kunze) Li Wang
* Lepisorus pseudonudus Ching
* Lepisorus pseudoussuriensis Tagawa
* Lepisorus schraderi (Mett.) Ching
* Lepisorus scolopendrium (Ching) Mehra & Bir
* Lepisorus sinensis (Christ) Ching
* Lepisorus sordidus (C.Chr.) Ching
* Lepisorus spicatus (L.f.) Li Wang
* Lepisorus subconfluens Ching
* Lepisorus sublinearis (Baker ex Takeda) Ching
* Lepisorus suboligolepidus Ching
* Lepisorus subsessile Ching & Y.X.Lin
* Lepisorus thaipaiensis Ching & S.K.Wu
* Lepisorus thunbergianus (Kaulf.) Ching
* Lepisorus tosaensis (Makino) H.Itô
* Lepisorus tricholepis K.H.Shing & Y.X.Lin
* Lepisorus uchiyamae (Makino) H.Itô
* Lepisorus ussuriensis (Regel & Mack.) Ching
* Lepisorus validinervis (Kunze) Li Wang
* Lepisorus yamaokae Seriz.
As of February 2020, Plants of the World Online sank the monotypic Paragramma into Lepisorus, thus including the sole species Paragramma longifolia as Lepisorus longifolius.