Cheiropleuria integrifolia(D.C.Eaton ex Hook.) M.Kato, Y.Yatabe, Sahashi & N.Murak.

WFO wfo-0000139492 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by Takaaki Hattori
fig. a Takaaki Hattori, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-04 / obs. 178277383
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by chiuluan
fig. b chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171542323
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110685504
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109532705
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109720806
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. f 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76769333
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71110490
Cheiropleuria integrifolia, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. h 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76766357

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Cheiropleuria integrifolia is native: China Southeast, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan China SoutheastJapanTaiwan Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Cheiropleuria integrifolia, 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 Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 308 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.7 °C 10.7 °C 16.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.5 °C 27.7 °C 30.0 °C
Annual rainfall 2,671 mm 3,983 mm 4,838 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 133 mm 522 mm 850 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 308 research-grade observations of Cheiropleuria integrifolia 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 2 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 bicuspe var. integrifolium D.C.Eaton ex Hook.
  • Cheiropleuria bicuspis var. integrifolia (D.C.Eaton ex Hook.) Matsum. & Hayata

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.