{{Short description|Genus of ferns}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Starr 041221-1891 Microlepia strigosa.jpg | image_caption = ''Microlepia strigosa'' | taxon = Microlepia | authority = C.Presl | type_species = ''Microlepia polypodioides'' | type_species_authority = (Sw.) C.Presl<ref>lectotype designated by J. Smith, Hist. Filicum 260 (1875).</ref><ref name=i/> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=i/> }}
'''''Microlepia''''' is a genus of ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae described as a genus in 1836.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/654567#page/125/mode/1up Presl, Carl Bořivoj. 1836. Tentamen Pteridographiae 124–125, pl. 4, f. 21–23]</ref><ref name=i>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40019020 Tropicos, ''Microlepia'' C. Presl ]</ref> 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.<ref name=i/><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=120565 Flora of China Vol. 2-3 Page 158 <big>鳞盖蕨属</big> lin gai jue shu ''Microlepia'' C. Presl]</ref><ref>Smith, A. R., K. M. Pryer, E. Schuettpelz, P. Korall, H. Schneider & P. Wolff. 2006. A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 705–731</ref>
;Species<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Microlepia The Plant List, search for ''Microlepia'']</ref> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''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 }}
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Category:Dennstaedtiaceae Category:Fern genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Borivoj Presl