Bolbitis heteroclita(Pr.) Ching

WFO wfo-0001117296 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 heteroclita, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-25 / obs. 159575007
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32075373
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by chiuluan
fig. c chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159574983
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32075376
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165360993
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165360954
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. g Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114698517
Bolbitis heteroclita, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114698523

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Bolbitis heteroclita is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Christmas I., East Himalaya, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoEast HimalayaJawaMalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Nansei-shotoChristmas I.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Bolbitis heteroclita, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Christmas I. XMS
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
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 53 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 flagelliferum Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.
  • Acrostichum heteroclitum C.Presl
  • Acrostichum modestum Baker
  • Acrostichum proliferum Blume
  • Bolbitis annamensis Tardieu & C.Chr.
  • Bolbitis confertifolia Ching
  • Bolbitis cuspidata (C.Presl) Ching
  • Bolbitis edanyoi Copel.
  • Bolbitis flagellifera (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Schott
  • Bolbitis foxworthyi (Copel.) Ching
  • Bolbitis koidzumii Tagawa
  • Bolbitis membranacea (Copel.) C.Chr.
  • Bolbitis modesta (Baker) Ching
  • Bolbitis nigra (Copel.) Ching
  • Bolbitis pseudoscalpturata (Copel.) Ching
  • Bolbitis scandens W.M.Chu
  • Bolbitis simplicifolia (Holttum) Ching
  • Bolbitis stenophylla (Kurz) Ching
  • Bolbitis tenuissima (Copel.) Copel.
  • Campium cuspidatum (C.Presl) Copel.
  • Campium foxworthyi Copel.
  • Campium heteroclitum (C.Presl) Copel.
  • Campium heteroclitum var. eurybasis Copel.
  • Campium membranaceum Copel.

and 29 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.