Cyrtomium fortuneiJ.Sm.

Asian netvein hollyfern

WFO wfo-0001109556 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. a Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-13 / obs. 179346597
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. b Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174466453
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Will Kuhn
fig. c Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114966733
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. d Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110559175
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102599309
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Philip Vanbergen
fig. f Philip Vanbergen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59091735
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Philip Vanbergen
fig. g Philip Vanbergen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 58909610
Cyrtomium fortunei, photographed by Barry Walter
fig. h Barry Walter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32326549

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Cyrtomium fortunei is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, Thailand, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaThailandVietnam Korea
Native distribution of Cyrtomium fortunei, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 14 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 falcatum var. fortunei (J.Sm.) Makino
  • Cyrtomium confertiserratum J.X.Li, H.S.Kung & Xiao J.Li
  • Cyrtomium falcatum var. polypterum (Diels) C.Chr.
  • Cyrtomium fortunei f. fortunei
  • Cyrtomium fortunei f. latipinna Ching
  • Cyrtomium fortunei f. polypterum (Diels) Ching
  • Cyrtomium fortunei var. fortunei
  • Cyrtomium recurvum Ching & Shing
  • Cyrtomium reflexosquamatum J.X.Li & F.Q.Zhou
  • Cyrtomium shandongense J.X.Li
  • Phanerophlebia fortunei (J.Sm.) Copel.
  • Polystichum falcatum f. polypterum Diels
  • Polystichum falcatum var. fortunei (J.Sm.) Matsum.
  • Polystichum fortunei (J.Sm.) Nakai

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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