Amauropelta glanduligera(Kunze) Y.H.Chang

WFO wfo-1000020418 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 glanduligera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-06 / obs. 202690948
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by harum.koh
fig. b harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 98703820
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106377251
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173184152
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 98703844
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106377234
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71714063
Amauropelta glanduligera, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187626140

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Amauropelta glanduligera is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalPhilippinesThailandVietnamWest Himalaya KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Amauropelta glanduligera, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI

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 49 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.8 °C 9.2 °C 12.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.0 °C 27.7 °C 32.0 °C
Annual rainfall 1,867 mm 3,129 mm 4,768 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 149 mm 217 mm 883 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 49 research-grade observations of Amauropelta glanduligera 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 16 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 glanduligerum Kunze
  • Aspidium gracilescens var. glanduligerum (Kunze) Franch. & Sav.
  • Christella glanduligera (Kunze) H.Lév.
  • Dryopteris glanduligera (Kunze) Christ
  • Dryopteris gracilescens subsp. glanduligera (Kunze) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris gracilescens var. glanduligera (Kunze) Makino & Nemoto
  • Dryopteris repentula Christ
  • Lastrea glanduligera (Kunze) T.Moore
  • Lastrea gracilescens var. glanduligera (Kunze) Bedd.
  • Nephrodium glanduligerum (Kunze) Makino
  • Nephrodium gracilescens var. glanduligera (Kunze) Baker
  • Nephrodium repentulum (Christ) C.B.Clarke ex Tutcher
  • Parathelypteris glanduligera (Kunze) Ching
  • Parathelypteris glanduligera var. puberula (Ching) Ching ex K.H.Shing
  • Thelypteris glanduligera (Kunze) Ching
  • Thelypteris glanduligera var. puberula 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.

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.