Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 61 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | ANG | AFRICA |
| Burundi | BUR | |
| Cameroon | CMN | |
| Central African Republic | CAF | |
| Comoros | COM | |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Equatorial Guinea | EQG | |
| Gabon | GAB | |
| Guinea | GUI | |
| Gulf of Guinea Is. | GGI | |
| Ivory Coast | IVO | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| Liberia | LBR | |
| Madagascar | MDG | |
| Mauritius | MAU | |
| Nigeria | NGA | |
| Réunion | REU | |
| Rwanda | RWA | |
| Senegal | SEN | |
| Sierra Leone | SIE | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Togo | TOG | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Bismarck Archipelago | BIS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Borneo | BOR | |
| Cambodia | CBD | |
| Christmas I. | XMS | |
| India | IND | |
| Jawa | JAW | |
| Lesser Sunda Is. | LSI | |
| Malaya | MLY | |
| Maluku | MOL | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| New Guinea | NWG | |
| Philippines | PHI | |
| Solomon Is. | SOL | |
| Sri Lanka | SRL | |
| Sulawesi | SUL | |
| Sumatera | SUM | |
| Thailand | THA | |
| Vietnam | VIE | |
| Caroline Is. | CRL | PACIFIC |
| Fiji | FIJ | |
| Hawaii | HAW | |
| Marianas | MRN | |
| Marquesas | MRQ | |
| New Caledonia | NWC | |
| Samoa | SAM | |
| Society Is. | SCI | |
| Tonga | TON | |
| Vanuatu | VAN | |
| Wallis-Futuna Is. | WAL | |
| China Southeast | CHS | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Ogasawara-shoto | OGA | |
| Taiwan | TAI | |
| New South Wales | NSW | AUSTRALASIA |
| Norfolk Is. | NFK | |
| Queensland | QLD | |
| Amsterdam-St.Paul Is. | ASP | ANTARCTICA |
Not drawn on the map: Ogasawara-shoto. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.
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 513 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 2.5 °C | 12.7 °C | 20.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 23.3 °C | 27.7 °C | 30.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 962 mm | 3,013 mm | 4,723 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 105 mm | 384 mm | 811 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 513 research-grade observations of Crepidomanes parvulum 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 54 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.
- Crepidomanes bonincola (Nakai) Seriz.
- Crepidomanes mannii (Hook.) J.P.Roux
- Crepidomanes minutum (Blume) K.Iwats.
- Crepidomanes minutum subsp. proliferum (Blume) T.C.Hsu
- Crepidomanes minutum var. mascarenensis Pynee & Dubuisson
- Crepidomanes novoguineense (Brause) Parris
- Crepidomanes proliferum (Blume) Bostock
- Crepidomanes proliferum var. minutum (Blume) C.A.Hameed ex Easa
- Crepidomanes ruwenzoriense (Taton) J.P.Roux
- Crepidomanes teysmannii (Bosch) Parris
- Gonocormus alagensis (Christ) Copel.
- Gonocormus assimilis (Mett.) Parris
- Gonocormus australis Ching
- Gonocormus bonincola (Nakai) Tagawa
- Gonocormus diffusus (Blume) Bosch
- Gonocormus latilabiatus (E.Brown) Copel.
- Gonocormus mannii Copel. ex G.Kunkel
- Gonocormus matthewii (Christ) Ching
- Gonocormus minutus (Blume) Bosch
- Gonocormus novoguineensis (Brause) Copel.
- Gonocormus palmatus Bosch
- Gonocormus prolifer Prantl
- Gonocormus ruwenzoriensis (Taton) Pic.Serm.
- Gonocormus siamensis Tagawa & K.Iwats.
and 30 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol TRMI9. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.