Bolbitis angustipinna(Hayata) H.Ito

WFO wfo-0001125337 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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.

Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-26 / obs. 111837865
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109850270
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104583177
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111837964
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109850282
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104583163
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111837905
Bolbitis angustipinna, photographed by Tatsutomo Chin
fig. h Tatsutomo Chin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63734304

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Bolbitis angustipinna is native: China South-Central, Hainan, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, West Himalaya China South-CentralHainanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaIndiaMyanmarNepalPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiThailandWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Bolbitis angustipinna, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
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.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Acrostichum contaminans Wall.
  • Acrostichum crispatulum var. contaminans C.B.Clarke
  • Acrostichum crispatulum var. contaminans C.B.Clarke
  • Bolbitis ponmudiensis Manickam & Irudayaraj
  • Campium angustipinnum (Hayata) Copel.
  • Leptochilus angustipinnus Hayata
  • Leptochilus cuspidatus var. crenatus Rosenst.
  • Poecilopteris contaminans T.Moore

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.