Doodia mediaR.Br.

WFO wfo-0001225986 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Doodia media, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. a Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / 2017-09-29 / obs. 11185252
Doodia media, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. b Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 11185195
Doodia media, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. c naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54427744
Doodia media, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. d Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 11185194
Doodia media, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. e naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54427750
Doodia media, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. f Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 11185253

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000755644
Filed as
Doodia media R.Br.
Det. by
Rosenstock
Collected
Le Rat 1910-11-01
Origin
NC
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Doodia media is native: New Guinea, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Queensland, Cook Is., Fiji, New Caledonia, Pitcairn Is., Tubuai Is. New GuineaNew Zealand NorthNew Zealand SouthQueenslandFijiNew Caledonia Norfolk Is.Cook Is.Pitcairn Is.Tubuai Is.
Native distribution of Doodia media, 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
Cook Is. COO PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ
New Caledonia NWC
Pitcairn Is. PIT
Tubuai Is. TUB
New Zealand North NZN AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand South NZS
Norfolk Is. NFK
Queensland QLD
New Guinea NWG ASIA-TROPICAL

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 17 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 medium (R.Br.) Christenh.
  • Doodia aucklandica Field
  • Doodia caudata f. triloba (F.Muell.) Domin
  • Doodia caudata var. media (R.Br.) Benth.
  • Doodia caudata var. triloba F.Muell.
  • Doodia connexa Kunze
  • Doodia duriuscula T.Moore
  • Doodia lunulata R.Br.
  • Doodia media subsp. media
  • Doodia media var. connexa (Kunze) Baker
  • Doodia media var. media
  • Doodia polysora Terracino
  • Woodwardia connexa Fée
  • Woodwardia duriuscula T.Moore
  • Woodwardia lunulata Fée
  • Woodwardia lunulata Mett.
  • Woodwardia media Fée

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.