Doryopteris pedata(L.) Fée

digit fern

WFO wfo-0001109595 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Doryopteris pedata, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. a John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-12-29 / obs. 35708382
Doryopteris pedata, photographed by botanygirl
fig. b botanygirl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14049567
Doryopteris pedata, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. c John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35708352
Doryopteris pedata, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. d Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181475699
Doryopteris pedata, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. e Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181475713

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Doryopteris pedata is native: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Windward Is. CubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto RicoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Doryopteris pedata, 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
Cuba CUB SOUTHERN AMERICA
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN

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 8 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.

  • Cassebeera pedata (L.) J.Sm.
  • Hemionitis doryopteris Christenh.
  • Litobrochia grandis T.Moore ex Hook.
  • Litobrochia pedata (L.) C.Presl
  • Pellaea pedata (L.) Prantl
  • Pellaea pedata (L.) Fée
  • Pteris pedata L.
  • Pteris polytoma Kunze

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.