Cyrtomium caryotideum (dwarf netvein hollyfern)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Cyrtomium caryotideum, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166810064

Cyrtomium caryotideum, photographed by Meng-Ying Tsai — fig. b Meng-Ying Tsai, CC0 1.0 / obs. 112771632

Cyrtomium caryotideum, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin — fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45591559

Cyrtomium caryotideum, photographed by Jerome Ko — fig. d Jerome Ko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39107839

Cyrtomium caryotideum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181922075

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Cyrtomium caryotideum, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China North-Central	CHN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central	CHC
China Southeast	CHS
Japan	JAP
Korea	KOR
Taiwan	TAI
Tibet	CHT
Assam	ASS	ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya	EHM
Myanmar	MYA
Nepal	NEP
Pakistan	PAK
Vietnam	VIE
West Himalaya	WHM
Hawaii	HAW	PACIFIC

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.

Aspidium caryotideum Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.
Aspidium caryotideum Wall.
Aspidium falcatum C.B.Clarke
Aspidium falcatum var. caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Baker
Cyrtomium caducum subvar. hastosum (Christ) H.Lév.
Cyrtomium caryotideum f. attenuatum (T.Moore) Ching
Cyrtomium caryotideum f. caryotideum
Cyrtomium caryotideum f. grossedentatum Ching
Cyrtomium caryotideum f. hastosum (Christ) Ching
Cyrtomium caryotideum subvar. hastosum
Cyrtomium caryotideum var. attenuatum T.Moore
Cyrtomium caryotideum var. papyraceum (Honda) Nemoto
Cyrtomium falcatum var. caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Bedd.
Dryopteris caryotidea (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Underw.
Dryopteris caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Underw. ex A.Heller
Phanerophlebia caryotidea (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Copel.
Polystichum caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Diels
Polystichum caryotideum var. papyraceum Honda
Polystichum falcatum var. caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Makino ex Matsum.

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.