Diploblechnum fraseri(A.Cunn.) De Vol

WFO wfo-0001126790 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205078453
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by Cara-Lisa Schloots
fig. b Cara-Lisa Schloots, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179544295
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. c naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178264641
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by Ian Armitage
fig. d Ian Armitage, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177268565
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. e Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166924648
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. f Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166378629
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by gnapp
fig. g gnapp, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141855549
Diploblechnum fraseri, photographed by Pieter Pelser
fig. h Pieter Pelser, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116590799

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Diploblechnum fraseri is native: Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, New Zealand North, New Zealand South TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoMalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraNew Zealand NorthNew Zealand South
Native distribution of Diploblechnum fraseri, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
New Zealand North NZN AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand South NZS
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 611 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.1 °C 8.5 °C 11.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.8 °C 21.1 °C 23.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,287 mm 1,653 mm 2,862 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 124 mm 302 mm 464 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 611 research-grade observations of Diploblechnum fraseri 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 9 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.

  • Blechnum fraseri (A.Cunn.) Luerss.
  • Blechnum fraseri var. philippense (Christ) Copel.
  • Blechnum integripinnulum Hayata
  • Diploblechnum integripinnulum (Hayata) Hayata
  • Lomaria fraseri A.Cunn.
  • Lomaria fraseri var. philippensis Christ
  • Spicanta fraseri (A.Cunn.) Kuntze
  • Struthiopteris fraseri (A.Cunn.) Ching
  • Struthiopteris integripinnula (Hayata) Ching

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.