Deparia formosana(Rosenst.) R.Sano

WFO wfo-0001042168 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-26 / obs. 111279006
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111278781
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111278889
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111279014
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111278846
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111278896
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111278999
Deparia formosana, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111278765

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Deparia formosana is native: China South-Central, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam China South-CentralJapanTaiwanPhilippinesVietnam
Native distribution of Deparia formosana, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Japan JAP
Taiwan TAI
Philippines PHI ASIA-TROPICAL
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 7 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.

  • Athyrium formosanum Copel.
  • Dictyodroma basipinnatifida (Ching) Ching
  • Dictyodroma formosana (Rosenst.) Ching
  • Diplaziopsis formosana (Rosenst.) M.G.Price
  • Diplazium basipinnatifidum Ching
  • Diplazium formosanum Rosenst.
  • Diplazium odoratissimum Hayata

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.