Sericopteris vestita (Hook.) Jing Zhao & X.M. Zhou, 2025

Zhao, Jing, Liang, Zhen-Long, Yu, Hong, He, Zhao-Rong & Zhou, Xin-Mao, 2025, Toward a monophyletic Paragympteris (Cheilanthoideae, Pteridaceae): description of Sericopteris gen. nov., Phytotaxa 693 (2), pp. 166-172 : 169

Sericopteris vestita (Hook.) Jing Zhao & X.M. Zhou , comb. nov.

Basionym: ≡ Gymnogramma vestita Hook., Icones Plantarum 2: pl. 115. 1837. ≡ Syngramma vestita (Hook.) T. Moore, Index Fil. 60. 1857. ≡ Hemionitis vestita (Hook.) J. Sm., Hist. Fil. 151. 1875. ≡ Neurogramma vestita (Hook.) Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1(4): 262. 1899. ≡ Gymnopteris vestita (Hook.) Underw. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. 29(11): 627. 1902. ≡ Paraceterach vestita (Hook.) R.M. Tryon Amer. Fern J. 76(4): 186. 1986. ≡ Paragymnopteris vestita (Hook.) K.H. Shing, Indian Fern J. 10(1-2): 230 (1993 publ. 1994). ≡ Notholaena himalaica Fraser-Jenk. , New Sp. Syndrome Indian Pteridol. & Ferns Nepal 183. 1997. ≡ Hemionitis himalaica (Fraser-Jenk.) Christenh., Global Fl. 1(4): 15. 2018., nom. superfl. ≡ Pellaea himalaica (Fraser-Jenk.) G.M. Zhang & Y. Yin, Bull. Bot. Res. 44(4): 499. 2024.

= Gymnogramma vestita var. bipinnata Christ, Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. , sér. 3, 16(199-201): 130. 1906.

This species is distributed across Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand (Chu & Zhang 2006, Zhang & Ranker 2013, Fraser-Jenkins et al. 2017).

The Chinese name is suggested as ‘ ḡƚḋẍ (juan mao luo jue)’.