Cosentinia vellea(Aiton) Tod.

WFO wfo-0001035056 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Thomas Dreux
fig. a Thomas Dreux, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-06 / obs. 186700060
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181337213
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177469896
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Yamil J.R
fig. d Yamil J.R, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173728611
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175256266
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Thomas Dreux
fig. f Thomas Dreux, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194714554
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Thomas Dreux
fig. g Thomas Dreux, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194708908
Cosentinia vellea, photographed by Thomas Dreux
fig. h Thomas Dreux, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186424156

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03903383
Filed as
Cosentinia vellea (Aiton) Tod.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 34 botanical countries

Regions where Cosentinia vellea is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Türkiye, Yemen, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptEthiopiaLibyaMoroccoSomaliaSudan-South SudanTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusIranIraqLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTürkiyeYemenPakistanWest HimalayaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Cosentinia vellea, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Egypt EGY
Ethiopia ETH
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Yemen YEM
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

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 608 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.1 °C 7.2 °C 15.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.2 °C 28.3 °C 35.0 °C
Annual rainfall 276 mm 551 mm 906 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 18 mm 85 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 608 research-grade observations of Cosentinia vellea 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 21 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 catanense Cosentini
  • Acrostichum denticulatum Colmeiro
  • Acrostichum lanuginosum
  • Acrostichum velleum Aiton
  • Cheilanthes catanensis (Cosentini) H.P.Fuchs
  • Cheilanthes catanensis subsp. bivalens (Reichst.) A.Hansen & Sunding
  • Cheilanthes vellea (Aiton) Domin
  • Cheilanthes vellea (Aiton) F.Muell.
  • Cheilanthes vellea subsp. bivalens (Reichst.) Greuter & Jermy
  • Cincinalis vellea (Aiton) Desv.
  • Cosentinia bivalens (Reichst.) Hansen & Sunding
  • Cosentinia catanensis (Cosentini) Tod.
  • Gymnogramma lanuginosa (Desf.) A.Braun
  • Gymnogramma vellea (Aiton) Kuhn
  • Hemionitis lanuginosa (Desv. ex Poir.) Christenh.
  • Notholaena lanuginosa (Desf.) Desv.
  • Notholaena lanuginosa subsp. bivalens Reichst.
  • Notholaena lanuginosum subsp. bivalens Reichst.
  • Notholaena plukenetii Fée
  • Notholaena vellea (Aiton) Desv.
  • Notholaena vellea f. cheilanthoides Trab. ex Emb.

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.