Cyathea atrovirens(Langsd. & Fisch.) Domin

WFO wfo-0001119458 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Cyathea atrovirens, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. a William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-08 / obs. 142937228
Cyathea atrovirens, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. b William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142937258
Cyathea atrovirens, photographed by Matías
fig. c Matías, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106372599

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Cyathea atrovirens is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Cyathea atrovirens, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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 46 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.

  • Alsophila acantha Sehnem
  • Alsophila acanthodes Sehnem
  • Alsophila atrovirens (Langsd. & Fisch.) C.Presl
  • Alsophila atrovirens f. acuminata Rosenstingl
  • Alsophila atrovirens subsp. verruculosa (Rosenst.) Lüderw.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. acuminata Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. ciliatopaleacea Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. elongata Christ
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. furcativenia Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. major Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. minor Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. patula Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. rigida Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. squamulosa Rosenst.
  • Alsophila atrovirens var. subcordata Rosenst.
  • Alsophila compta Mart.
  • Alsophila compta f. transiens Hassl.
  • Alsophila dryopteridoides Domin
  • Alsophila dryopteridoides var. fallacina Domin
  • Alsophila fallacina Domin
  • Alsophila guianensis Regel
  • Alsophila hookeriana Kl.; Hk.
  • Alsophila kleinii Sehnem
  • Alsophila leptocladia Fée

and 22 more.

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.