Cornopteris opaca(D.Don) Tagawa

WFO wfo-0001116747 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 173184719
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161272708
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153901815
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135435798
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109851314
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109850718
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109534300
Cornopteris opaca, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173184707

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Cornopteris opaca is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Taiwan, Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamBorneoEast HimalayaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalPhilippinesSulawesiThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Cornopteris opaca, 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
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
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 19 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.

  • Athyrium gymnocarpum Copel.
  • Athyrium opacum (D.Don) Copel.
  • Athyrium opacum f. glabrescens (Sa.Kurata) Seriz.
  • Athyrium opacum var. glabrescens
  • Cornopteris likiangensis Ching
  • Diplazium opacum (D.Don) Christ
  • Dryopteris bankinsinensis Hayata
  • Dryopteris opaca (Don) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris succulentipes Hayata
  • Grammitis obtusata (Blume) C.Presl
  • Gymnogramma obtusata Blume
  • Gymnogramma opaca (D.Don) Spreng.
  • Hemionitis opaca D.Don
  • Leptogramma obtusata (Blume) J.Sm.
  • Leptogramma opaca (D.Don) Bedd.
  • Nephrodium obtusatum (Blume) Diels
  • Phegopteris obtusata (Blume) Christ
  • Phegopteris opaca (D.Don) Mett.
  • Thelypteris opaca (D.Don) C.F.Reed

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.