Plant Details

Accepted name:: Polypodium virginianum L. [Polypodiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
rock polyplody	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
rock polypody	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
多足蕨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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Kew's taxonomic resources include 26 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Polypodium vulgare subsp. virginianum (L.) Hultén Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., ser. 4, 8(5): 176 (1962).
Polypodium vinlandicum Á.Löve & D.Löve Taxon 26: 324 (1977).
Polypodium virginianum f. acuminatum Fernald Rhodora 24: 141 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. alatomultifidum Fernald Rhodora 24: 142 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. bipinnatifidum Fernald Rhodora 24: 141 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. biserratum (Millsp.) M.Broun Index No. Amer. Ferns: 142 (1938).
Polypodium virginianum f. brachypteron Fernald Rhodora 24: 141 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. cambricoides F.W.Gray Amer. Fern J. 14: 5 (1924).
Polypodium virginianum f. chondroides Fernald Rhodora 24: 142 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. churchiae Fernald Rhodora 24: 142 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. deltoideum Fernald Rhodora 24: 141 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. elongatum Fernald Rhodora 24: 141 (1922).
Polypodium virginianum f. subsimplex Fernald Rhodora 24: 141 (1922).
Polypodium vulgare var. acuminatum Gilbert Fern Bull. 10: 13 (1902).
Polypodium vulgare var. alatomultifidum Gilbert Fern Bull. 14: 105 (1906).
Polypodium vulgare var. americanum Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 258 (1840).
Polypodium vulgare var. bifidomultifidum Gilbert Fern Bull. 14: 39 (1906).
Polypodium vulgare f. biserratum Millsp. Fl. W. Virginia: 479 (1892).
Polypodium vulgare f. brachypteron Ridlon Amer. Fern J. 11: 122 (1922).
Polypodium vulgare var. deceptum Maxon Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 23: 628 (1901).
Polypodium vulgare f. deltoideum Gilbert Fern Bull. 14: 37 (1906).
Polypodium vulgare f. elongatum Jewell Maine Woods 30(31): 1 (1908).
Polypodium vulgare f. hastatum Gilbert Fern Bull. 14: 37 (1906).
Polypodium vulgare f. marginale Gilbert Fern Bull. 14: 35 (1906).
Polypodium vulgare f. projectum Fernald Rhodora 24: 140 (1922).
Polypodium vulgare f. rotundatum Ridlon Amer. Fern J. 11: 48 (1921), nom. illeg.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Polypodium virginianum L.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Polypodium vulgare L. var. virginianum A.Eaton	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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