Cryptogramma brunonianaWall. ex Hook. & Grev.

WFO wfo-0001118549 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.

Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. a Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-23 / obs. 81128424
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135088708
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23691832
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23686317
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. e Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81128433
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. f Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21542384
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. g Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21542428
Cryptogramma brunoniana, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27132010

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Cryptogramma brunoniana is native: Afghanistan, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Irkutsk, Japan, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Taiwan, Tibet, Yakutiya, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChitaIrkutskJapanKhabarovskPrimoryeTaiwanTibetYakutiyaAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Cryptogramma brunoniana, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Khabarovsk KHA
Primorye PRM
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Yakutiya YAK
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
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 39 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.6 °C -5.5 °C 0.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 11.0 °C 13.1 °C 18.2 °C
Annual rainfall 3,045 mm 3,386 mm 4,270 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 253 mm 301 mm 511 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 39 research-grade observations of Cryptogramma brunoniana 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 16 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.

  • Allosorus brunonianus (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) J.Sm.
  • Allosorus raddeanus (Fomin) Ching
  • Cheilanthes crispa f. indica Hook.
  • Cryptogramma brunoniana Wall.
  • Cryptogramma brunoniana var. sinensis (Christ) G.M.Zhang
  • Cryptogramma crispa Bedd.
  • Cryptogramma crispa f. indica Hook.
  • Cryptogramma crispa subsp. raddeana (Fomin) Hultén
  • Cryptogramma crispa var. brunoniana Fernald
  • Cryptogramma crispa var. brunoniana (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Hook. & Baker
  • Cryptogramma crispa var. sinensis Christ
  • Cryptogramma emeiensis Ching & Shing
  • Cryptogramma raddeana Fomin
  • Cryptogramma shensiensis Ching
  • Gymnogramma brunoniana (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C.Presl
  • Phorolobus brunonianus (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Fée

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.