Amauropelta bergiana(Schltdl.) Holttum

WFO wfo-0001110847 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Amauropelta bergiana, photographed by Di Turner
fig. a Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / 2021-04-24 / obs. 123589355
Amauropelta bergiana, photographed by Di Turner
fig. b Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 123589407
Amauropelta bergiana, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. c Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145334512
Amauropelta bergiana, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. d Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145334528
Amauropelta bergiana, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. e Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145336506

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Amauropelta bergiana is native: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Comoros, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is., Tristan da Cunha AngolaBotswanaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEswatiniEthiopiaGulf of Guinea Is.KenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe ComorosRéunionAmsterdam-St.Paul Is.Tristan da Cunha
Native distribution of Amauropelta bergiana, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Comoros COM
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is. ASP ANTARCTICA
Tristan da Cunha TDC

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.

  • Aspidium anateinophlebium Kuhn
  • Aspidium bergianum (Schltdl.) Mett.
  • Aspidium maranguense Hieron.
  • Aspidium sewellii Kuhn & Decken
  • Dryopteris anateinophlebia (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris bergiana (Schltdl.) Kuntze
  • Dryopteris maranguensis (Hieron.) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris palmii C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris prolixa var. bergiana (Schltdl.) Alston ex Gilliland
  • Dryopteris sewellii (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Lastrea bergiana (Schltdl.) T.Moore
  • Lastrea bergiana (Schltdl.) Demaret
  • Lastrea maranguensis Copel.
  • Nephrodium anateinophlebium Baker
  • Nephrodium bergianum (Schltdl.) Baker
  • Nephrodium sewellii Baker
  • Phegopteris mischlichii Christ
  • Polypodium bergianum Schltdl.
  • Thelypteris bergiana (Schlecht.) Ching

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.

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