Angiopteris evecta(Forst.) Hoffm.

Oriental vessel fern

WFO wfo-0001115201 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. a Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 198446410
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. b Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198448445
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. c Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198448330
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198315471
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199038523
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198815600
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198811849
Angiopteris evecta, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. h Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198816674

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Angiopteris evecta is native: Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Caroline Is., Cook Is., Fiji, Marianas, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Society Is., Tonga, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. Bismarck ArchipelagoNew GuineaNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandFijiNew Caledonia Caroline Is.Cook Is.MarianasNiueSamoaSociety Is.TongaTubuai Is.VanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Angiopteris evecta, 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
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Cook Is. COO
Fiji FIJ
Marianas MRN
New Caledonia NWC
Niue NUE
Samoa SAM
Society Is. SCI
Tonga TON
Tubuai Is. TUB
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
New Guinea NWG

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 1,333 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.5 °C 19.7 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.3 °C 26.2 °C 29.2 °C
Annual rainfall 927 mm 2,462 mm 4,976 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 116 mm 255 mm 1,010 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,333 research-grade observations of Angiopteris evecta 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 25 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.

  • Angiopteris acrocarpa de Vriese
  • Angiopteris alata Nadeaud
  • Angiopteris aurata de Vriese
  • Angiopteris beecheyana de Vriese
  • Angiopteris brongniartiana de Vriese
  • Angiopteris canaliculata Holttum
  • Angiopteris commutata C.Presl
  • Angiopteris cupreata de Vriese
  • Angiopteris elongata Hieron.
  • Angiopteris erecta Desv.
  • Angiopteris evanidostriata Hieron.
  • Angiopteris evecta var. rurutensis E.D.Br.
  • Angiopteris evecta var. vaupelii Hieron.
  • Angiopteris hellwigii Hieron.
  • Angiopteris lasegueana de Vriese
  • Angiopteris lauterbachii Hieron.
  • Angiopteris longifolia Grev. & Hook.
  • Angiopteris lorentzii Rosenst.
  • Angiopteris muricata Pr.; de Vriese
  • Angiopteris naumannii Hieron.
  • Angiopteris novocaledonica Hieron.
  • Angiopteris palauensis Hieron.
  • Callipteris heterophylla T.Moore
  • Danaea evecta (G.Forst.) Spreng.

and 1 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.