Davallia pectinataSm.

haresfoot fern

WFO wfo-0001224955 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Davallia pectinata, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. a Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / 2020-01-30 / obs. 60526476
Davallia pectinata, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. b Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60526477
Davallia pectinata, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. c Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50385353
Davallia pectinata, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. d Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50385395
Davallia pectinata, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. e Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50385296

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Davallia pectinata is native: Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland, Caroline Is., Cook Is., Marianas, New Caledonia, Samoa, Society Is., Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoJawaMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueenslandNew Caledonia Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.Cook Is.MarianasSamoaSociety Is.Tubuai Is.VanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Davallia pectinata, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Cook Is. COO
Marianas MRN
New Caledonia NWC
Samoa SAM
Society Is. SCI
Tubuai Is. TUB
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 32 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 19.6 °C 20.6 °C 25.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.7 °C 28.7 °C 28.8 °C
Annual rainfall 2,736 mm 2,876 mm 4,964 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 366 mm 411 mm 972 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 32 research-grade observations of Davallia pectinata 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 25 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.

  • Davallia gaimardiana C.Presl
  • Davallia intermarginalis Blume
  • Davallia parallela Wall. ex Hook.
  • Davallia parallela Wall.
  • Humata archboldii Copel.
  • Humata banksii Alston
  • Humata gaimardiana (Gaud.) J.Sm.
  • Humata huahinensis Copel.
  • Humata intermarginalis (Blume) T.Moore
  • Humata lanuginosa Alderw.
  • Humata melanophlebia Copel.
  • Humata parallela Brack.
  • Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv.
  • Humata tenuivenia Copel.
  • Humata trukensis H.Itô
  • Nephrodium gaimardianum Gaudich.
  • Nephrolepis gaimardiana C.Presl
  • Oleandra parallela Keyserl.
  • Pachypleuria intermarginalis C.Presl
  • Pachypleuria parallela C.Presl
  • Pachypleuria pectinata C.Presl
  • Pachypleuria trukensis (H.Itô) M.Kato
  • Pteroneuron parallelum (Wall. ex Hook.) Fée
  • Pteronevron parallelum Fée

and 1 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol DAPE7. public domain. 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.

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.