''Didymoglossum melanopus'' is a species of fern in the family

Hymenophyllaceae The Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns and bristle ferns, are a family of two to nine genera (depending on classification system) and about 650 known species of ferns, with a subcosmopolitan distribution, but generally restricted to very damp pl ...

. It is endemic to Ecuador. The genus '' Didymoglossum'' is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not by some other sources. , ''

Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...

'' merged the genus into a broadly defined ''

Trichomanes ''Trichomanes'' is a genus of ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae, termed bristle ferns. The circumscription of the genus is disputed. All ferns in the genus are filmy ferns, with leaf tissue typically 2 cells thick. This thinness generally ...

'', treating this species as ''Trichomanes melanopus''.

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Hymenophyllales Ferns of Ecuador Endemic flora of Ecuador Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Polypodiidae-stub