Family Code: POLYPO Genus Code: PLEOP Genus CN: scaly polypody Genus Authority: Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Genus Summary: A genus of about 90 species (as circumscribed by Smith & Tejero-Díez 2014), primarily tropical. Windham (1993) and later authors, such as Otto et al. (2009), make a compelling case, based on morphological, chemical, and molecular data, that the “scaly polypodies” should be placed in Pleopeltis, rather than in Polypodium. The Pleopeltis polypodioides complex is monographed by Sprunt (2010) as including eight taxa at species rank: one (P. michauxiana) in se. North America, six in tropical America from s. FL and Mexico south through the West Indies, Central America to South America, and one in s. Africa. Genus References: Sprunt (2010); Smith & Tejero-Díez (2014)=Z; Vincent & Hickey (2014)=Y; Otto et al. (2009); Windham (1993); Andrews & Windham in FNA (1993b); Hennipman, Veldhoen, & Kramer in Kramer & Green (1990). Last Updated: 2019-11-29 Publish: 1