Cibotium barometz(L.) J.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000748037 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cibotium barometz, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-05 / obs. 175041896
Cibotium barometz, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 127128062
Cibotium barometz, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99455285
Cibotium barometz, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99455791
Cibotium barometz, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63161093
Cibotium barometz, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63101234
Cibotium barometz, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12025338
Cibotium barometz, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31290922

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Cibotium barometz is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Cibotium barometz, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 258 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.9 °C 11.0 °C 13.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.2 °C 28.4 °C 30.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,836 mm 2,654 mm 3,846 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 82 mm 158 mm 368 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 258 research-grade observations of Cibotium barometz 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 15 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.

  • Aspidium barometz (L.) Willd.
  • Balantium glaucescens (Kunze) Link
  • Cibotium assamicum Hook.
  • Cibotium baranetz (L.) Christ
  • Cibotium barometz var. sumatranum Christ
  • Cibotium djambianum Hassk.
  • Cibotium glaucescens Kunze
  • Cibotium glaucophyllum C.Presl
  • Cibotium sumatranum Christ
  • Dicksonia assamica (Hook.) Griff.
  • Dicksonia baranetz (L.) Link
  • Dicksonia barometz (L.) Link
  • Dicksonia baromez (L.) Link
  • Nephrodium barometz (L.) Sweet
  • Polypodium barometz L.

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.