title: Microlepia
text: # Microlepia
  
  Microlepia is a genus of ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae described as a genus in 1836. Most of the species are native to Asia, with many endemic to China, although a few species occur also in Australia, Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and various oceanic islands.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Microlepia ampla - Hainan
  * Microlepia angustipinna - Yunnan
  * Microlepia aspidioides
  * Microlepia attenuata - Fujian
  * Microlepia calvescens - China, India, Vietnam
  * Microlepia caudifolia - Yunnan
  * Microlepia caudiformis - Yunnan
  * Microlepia caudipinnata - Guangdong
  * Microlepia chingii - Hainan
  * Microlepia chrysocarpa - Chongqing, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan
  * Microlepia communis - Yunnan
  * Microlepia crassa - Yunnan
  * Microlepia crenata - Yunnan
  * Microlepia crenatoserrata - Yunnan
  * Microlepia critica - Guangxi
  * Microlepia firma - Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
  * Microlepia flaccida - Australia
  * Microlepia formosana - Taiwan
  * Microlepia fujianensis - Fujian
  * Microlepia ganlanbaensis - Yunnan
  * Microlepia gigantea - Yunnan
  * Microlepia glabra - Sichuan
  * Microlepia hainanensis - Hainan
  * Microlepia hancei - China, Bhutan, India, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Nepal, Vietnam
  * Microlepia herbacea - Vietnam
  * Microlepia hirsuta - Luzon
  * Microlepia hispida - Yunnan, Vietnam
  * Microlepia hookeriana - China, Borneo, N India, Indonesia, Ryukyu Islands, Malaysia, Nepal, Vietnam
  * Microlepia intermedia - Guangxi
  * Microlepia jamaicensis - Cuba, Jamaica
  * Microlepia japonica - Japan
  * Microlepia kansuensis - Gansu
  * Microlepia khasiyana - India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, China
  * Microlepia kurzii - Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
  * Microlepia kwangtungensis - Guangdong
  * Microlepia lofoushanensis - Guangdong
  * Microlepia longipilosa - Yunnan
  * Microlepia madagascariensis - Madagascar
  * Microlepia marginalis - India
  * Microlepia marginata - China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  * Microlepia matthewii - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Vietnam
  * Microlepia medogensis - Tibet
  * Microlepia membranacea - Guangdong, Hunan
  * Microlepia modesta - Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
  * Microlepia mollifolia - Taiwan
  * Microlepia neostrigosa - Yunnan
  * Microlepia obtusiloba - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Vietnam
  * Microlepia omeiensis - Sichuan
  * Microlepia pallida - Guangdong, Guangxi
  * Microlepia paucipinnata - Guangdong
  * Microlepia phanerophlebia - Vietnam
  * Microlepia pilosissima - Yunnan
  * Microlepia pingpienensis - Yunnan
  * Microlepia pinnata - SE Asia, India, Taiwan, New Guinea
  * Microlepia platyphylla - S China, Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Philippines
  * Microlepia polypodioides - Himalayas
  * Microlepia pseudostrigosa - Japan, Vietnam, China
  * Microlepia puberula - Thailand, Borneo
  * Microlepia rhomboidea - China, Himalayas, SE Asia
  * Microlepia scabra - Himalayas
  * Microlepia scyphoformis - Hainan
  * Microlepia setosa - Japan
  * Microlepia singpienensis - Yunnan
  * Microlepia sinostrigosa - Sichuan
  * Microlepia speluncae - SE Asia, S China, Indian Subcontinent, Australia, Africa, West Indies, Brazil, Polynesia--
  * Microlepia straminea - Yunnan
  * Microlepia strigosa - SE Asia, S China, Pacific Islands
  * Microlepia subrhomboidea - Yunnan
  * Microlepia subspeluncae - Yunnan
  * Microlepia substrigosa - Taiwan, Japan
  * Microlepia subtrichosticha - Hainan
  * Microlepia szechuanica - Sichuan
  * Microlepia taiwaniana - Taiwan
  * Microlepia tenella - Guangxi, Guizhou, Taiwan, Yunnan
  * Microlepia todayensis - SE Asia, S China
  * Microlepia trapeziformis - SE Asia, S China, India
  * Microlepia trichocarpa - China, Nepal, Darjeeling
  * Microlepia trichoclada - Yunnan
  * Microlepia trichosora - Yunnan
  * Microlepia tripinnata - Yunnan
  * Microlepia villosa - Nepal
  * Microlepia wentongensis - Guangdong
  * Microlepia yunnanensis - Yunnan
  