Aleuritopteris argentea(S.G.Gmel.) Fée

WFO wfo-0001117683 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-08 / obs. 133378807
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133379595
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Yi CHEN
fig. c Yi CHEN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82275561
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Dmitry Lyskov
fig. d Dmitry Lyskov, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107157444
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Pieter Pelser
fig. e Pieter Pelser, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29987541
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157260605
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161274879
Aleuritopteris argentea, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152859808

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Aleuritopteris argentea is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nansei-shoto, Primorye, Qinghai, Taiwan, Tibet, Tuva, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Myanmar, South China Sea, Thailand AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChitaHainanInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTaiwanTibetTuvaXinjiangYakutiyaMyanmarThailand KoreaNansei-shotoSouth China Sea
Native distribution of Aleuritopteris argentea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Hainan CHH
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Nansei-shoto NNS
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Myanmar MYA ASIA-TROPICAL
South China Sea SCS
Thailand THA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 375 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -28.3 °C -11.9 °C 9.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.0 °C 24.5 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 315 mm 683 mm 4,117 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 9 mm 25 mm 329 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 375 research-grade observations of Aleuritopteris argentea that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aleuritopteris argentea var. flava Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Aleuritopteris argentea var. geraniifolia Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Aleuritopteris argentea var. major Ching
  • Aleuritopteris flava (Ching & S.K.Wu) S.R.Ghosh
  • Aleuritopteris geraniifolia Ching
  • Aleuritopteris michelii (Christ) Ching
  • Aleuritopteris nuda Ching
  • Aleuritopteris qianguiensis W.M.Chu & H.G.Zhou
  • Aleuritopteris shensiensis Ching
  • Allosorus argenteus (S.G.Gmel.) C.Presl
  • Cassebeera argentea (S.G.Gmel.) J.Sm.
  • Cheilanthes argentea (S.G.Gmel.) Kunze
  • Cheilanthes argentea f. obscura (Christ) Kitag.
  • Cheilanthes argentea var. obscura Christ
  • Cheilanthes argentea var. sulphurea Hook.
  • Doryopteris argentea (S.G.Gmel.) Christ
  • Doryopteris michelii Christ
  • Dryopteris argentea (S.G.Gmel.) Christ
  • Hemionitis amarganthica Christenh.
  • Hemionitis michelii (Christ) Christenh.
  • Hemionitis nuda (Ching) Christenh.
  • Hemionitis qianguiensis (W.M.Chu & H.G.Zhou) Christenh.
  • Hemionitis shensiensis (Ching) Christenh.
  • Pteris argentea S.G.Gmel.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.