Alsophila firma(Baker) D.S.Conant

WFO wfo-0001114400 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.

Alsophila firma, photographed by Eridan Xharahi
fig. a Eridan Xharahi, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-08 / obs. 63671164
Alsophila firma, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. b Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 30768470
Alsophila firma, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9767899
Alsophila firma, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. d Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9767900
Alsophila firma, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. e Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 30768477
Alsophila firma, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5347217
Alsophila firma, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. g Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 30768482
Alsophila firma, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. h Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9767898

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02058365
Filed as
Alsophila firma (Baker) D.S.Conant
Det. by
R. C. Moran 2014-01-01
Collected
M. S. Jaimes-Roncancio 2013-12-09
Origin
CO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Alsophila firma is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamá
Native distribution of Alsophila firma, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 19 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.

  • Alsophila costalis Christ
  • Alsophila furcata Christ
  • Alsophila tenerifrons Christ
  • Cyathea arida Christ
  • Cyathea articulata Fée
  • Cyathea costalis Domin
  • Cyathea denudans Kunze
  • Cyathea firma (Baker) Domin
  • Cyathea firmula Domin
  • Cyathea gemmifera Christ
  • Cyathea hexagona Fée & Schaffn.
  • Cyathea mexicana Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Cyathea patellaris Christ
  • Cyathea tenerifrons Domin
  • Cyathea trejoi Christ
  • Hemitelia firma Baker
  • Nephelea mexicana (Schltdl. & Cham.) R.M.Tryon
  • Nephelea patellaris (Christ) R.M.Tryon
  • Nephelea tenerifrons (Christ) R.M.Tryon

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.