Calymmodon cucullatus(Nees & Blume) C.Presl

WFO wfo-0001120248 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Calymmodon cucullatus, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. a naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-10-16 / obs. 54217311
Calymmodon cucullatus, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. b naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54217288
Calymmodon cucullatus, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. c naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54217294

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Calymmodon cucullatus is native: Japan, Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland, Marquesas, New Caledonia, Society Is. JapanTaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoJawaMalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueenslandNew Caledonia MarquesasSociety Is.
Native distribution of Calymmodon cucullatus, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Marquesas MRQ PACIFIC
New Caledonia NWC
Society Is. SCI
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 11 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.

  • Calymmodon holttumii Parris
  • Calymmodon subalpinus Parris
  • Grammitis cucullata (Nees & Blume) Blume
  • Grammitis urania Christenh.
  • Plectopteris calymmodon Fée
  • Polypodium calymmodon Fée & Alderw.
  • Polypodium cucullatum Nees & Blume
  • Polypodium cucullatum var. subgracillimum (Alderw.) C.Chr.
  • Polypodium gracillimum Rosenst.
  • Polypodium subgracillimum Alderw.
  • Xiphopteris cucullata (Nees & Blume) Spreng.

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.