Diplazium pullingeri(Baker) J.Sm.

WFO wfo-0001118139 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.

Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-22 / obs. 65486724
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65486734
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65486741
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180567804
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180567805
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180567806
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180567815
Diplazium pullingeri, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180567836

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Diplazium pullingeri is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Malaya, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanMalayaVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Diplazium pullingeri, 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 South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Malaya MLY 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 62 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.8 °C 9.0 °C 12.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.4 °C 26.7 °C 29.8 °C
Annual rainfall 2,912 mm 4,424 mm 4,836 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 113 mm 602 mm 924 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 62 research-grade observations of Diplazium pullingeri 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 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.

  • Asplenium bireme C.H.Wright
  • Asplenium chlorophyllum Baker
  • Asplenium crenatolobatum Baker
  • Asplenium hancockii Maxim.
  • Asplenium lepidorachis (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Asplenium lepidorachis Baker
  • Asplenium pullingeri Baker
  • Athyrium chlorophyllum Copel.
  • Athyrium pullingeri (Baker) Copel.
  • Diplazium chlorophyllum (Baker) Bedd.
  • Diplazium crenatolobatum (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Diplazium crenatoserratum var. hirtum Rosenst.
  • Diplazium hancockii (Maxim.) Hayata
  • Diplazium lepidorachis (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Monomelangium hancockii (Maxim.) Hayata
  • Monomelangium pullingeri (Baker) Tagawa
  • Monomelangium pullingeri var. daweishanicola W.M.Chu & Z.R.He
  • Monomelangium pullingeri var. daweishanicolum W.M.Chu & Z.R.He
  • Monomelangium pullingeri var. pullingeri

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.