Angiopteris fokiensisHieron.

WFO wfo-0001114554 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Angiopteris fokiensis, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. a Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-08-02 / obs. 9590268
Angiopteris fokiensis, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. b Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10399971
Angiopteris fokiensis, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. c Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9658509

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3880774
Filed as
Angiopteris fokiensis Hieron.
Det. by
T. Wang 2025-05-30
Collected
T. M. Tsui 1932
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Angiopteris fokiensis is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapan
Native distribution of Angiopteris fokiensis, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP

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 15 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 angustipinnula Ching
  • Angiopteris attenuata Ching
  • Angiopteris fokiensis var. muralis (Ching) S.H.Wu
  • Angiopteris jiangxiensis Ching & J.F.Cheng
  • Angiopteris kwangsiensis Ching
  • Angiopteris lingii Ching
  • Angiopteris longipetiolata Ching
  • Angiopteris muralis Ching
  • Angiopteris officinalis Ching
  • Angiopteris omeiensis Ching
  • Angiopteris petiolulata Ching
  • Angiopteris shanyuanensis Ching
  • Angiopteris sinica Ching
  • Angiopteris subcordata Ching
  • Angiopteris tenera 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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