Arachniodes cornucervi(D.Don) Fraser-Jenk.

WFO wfo-0001035850 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. a harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-03 / obs. 118701772
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. b harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733812
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. c harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733739
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. d harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733882
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 118701781
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733748
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. g harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733900
Arachniodes cornucervi, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733820

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Arachniodes cornucervi is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Vietnam, Caroline Is. China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaIndiaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaVietnam KoreaNansei-shotoCaroline Is.
Native distribution of Arachniodes cornucervi, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

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 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.

  • Arachniodes austroyunnanensis Ching
  • Arachniodes caudata var. kansuensis Ching
  • Arachniodes emeiensis Ching
  • Arachniodes futeshanensis Y.T.Hsieh
  • Arachniodes guangtongensis Ching
  • Arachniodes heyuanensis Ching
  • Arachniodes ishingensis Ching & Y.T.Xie
  • Arachniodes kansuensis (Ching) Y.T.Hsieh
  • Arachniodes multifida Ching
  • Arachniodes neoaristata Ching
  • Arachniodes pseudoaristata (Rosenst.) Ching
  • Arachniodes sichuanensis Ching
  • Arachniodes sinoaristata Ching
  • Arachniodes sparsa Ching
  • Arachniodes sporadosora (Kunze) Nakaike
  • Arachniodes subaristata Ching & Y.T.Hsieh
  • Arachniodes yandangshanensis Y.T.Xie
  • Aspidium aristatum var. affine C.B.Clarke
  • Aspidium cornu-cervi D.Don
  • Aspidium hamiltonii Spreng.
  • Aspidium mucronatum D.Don
  • Aspidium sporadosorum Kunze
  • Hypopeltis hamiltonii (Spreng.) Bory
  • Lastrea aristata var. hamiltonii Bedd.

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. 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.