Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 13 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China North-Central | CHN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China South-Central | CHC | |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Inner Mongolia | CHI | |
| Japan | JAP | |
| Korea | KOR | |
| Manchuria | CHM | |
| Primorye | PRM | |
| Taiwan | TAI | |
| Assam | ASS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| East Himalaya | EHM | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Vietnam | VIE |
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 900 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -10.5 °C | -2.8 °C | 1.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.3 °C | 29.1 °C | 31.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 843 mm | 1,218 mm | 1,881 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 47 mm | 232 mm | 305 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 900 research-grade observations of Anisocampium niponicum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 27 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.
- Asplenium brevisorum Wall.
- Asplenium brevisorum Wall. ex Hook.
- Asplenium niponicum Mett.
- Asplenium niponicum var. longipes Franch. & Sav.
- Asplenium niponicum var. minus Franch. & Sav.
- Asplenium niponicum var. uropteron (Miq.) Franch. & Sav.
- Asplenium uropteron Miq.
- Athyrium anhweiense Ching & P.C.Chiu
- Athyrium apiciflorum Ching
- Athyrium biondii Christ
- Athyrium brevisorum Bedd.
- Athyrium chekiangense Ching
- Athyrium concinnum Nakai
- Athyrium fissum Christ
- Athyrium goeringianum var. pictum Maxwell
- Athyrium matsumurae Christ ex Matsum.
- Athyrium niponicum (Mett.) Hance
- Athyrium niponicum f. cristato-flabellatum (Makino) Nameg. & Sa.Kurata
- Athyrium niponicum f. majus C.Chr.
- Athyrium niponicum var. cristato-flabellatum Makino
- Athyrium niponicum var. pachyphlebium (C.Chr.) Kitag.
- Athyrium niponicum var. pictum (Maxwell) Fraser-Jenk.
- Athyrium pachyphlebium C.Chr.
- Athyrium silvestrii Christ
and 3 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.