Deparia jiulungensis(Ching) Z.R.Wang

WFO wfo-0001337402 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166961819
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105595358
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166961858
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105595377
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166961728
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105595390
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166961769
Deparia jiulungensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105595403

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Deparia jiulungensis is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwan
Native distribution of Deparia jiulungensis, 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
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI

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 5 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.

  • Deparia albosquamata var. jiulungensis (Ching) Z.R.Wang
  • Lunathyrium jiulungense Ching
  • Lunathyrium orientale var. huangshanense Z.R.Wang
  • Lunathyrium orientale var. huangshanense Z.R.Wang ex Z.R.Wang & J.J.Chien
  • Lunathyrium orientale var. jiulungense (Ching) Z.R.Wang

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.