Aleuritopteris coriacea(Decne.) Windham & Schuettp.

WFO wfo-1000079460 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Aleuritopteris coriacea, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. a Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2004-08-15 / obs. 103009784
Aleuritopteris coriacea, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. b Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 103009788
Aleuritopteris coriacea, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. c Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 103009795

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Aleuritopteris coriacea is native: Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen ChadDjiboutiEthiopiaNigerSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaIranOmanSaudi ArabiaYemen
Native distribution of Aleuritopteris coriacea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Chad CHA AFRICA
Djibouti DJI
Ethiopia ETH
Niger NGR
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM

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.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Allosorus coriaceus (Decne.) Christenh.
  • Cheilanthes arabica Dcne.
  • Cheilanthes coriacea Decne.
  • Cheilanthes decaisnei Kunze
  • Hemionitis morla Christenh.
  • Oeosporangium coriaceum (Decne.) Fraser-Jenk. & Pariyar
  • Pellaea abyssinica Fée
  • Pellaea arabica Fée
  • Pellaea lomarioides Baker

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.