Drynaria rigidula(Sw.) Bedd.

basket fern

WFO wfo-0001115917 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204821265
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203653417
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202360008
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200225726
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199080400
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197727438
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195878218
Drynaria rigidula, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. h Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194271642

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Drynaria rigidula is native: China South-Central, Hainan, Bismarck Archipelago, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, New South Wales, Queensland, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu China South-CentralHainanBismarck ArchipelagoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNew South WalesQueenslandFijiNew Caledonia SamoaTongaVanuatu
Native distribution of Drynaria rigidula, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Fiji FIJ PACIFIC
New Caledonia NWC
Samoa SAM
Tonga TON
Vanuatu VAN
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD

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 1,190 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.7 °C 10.8 °C 19.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.1 °C 28.0 °C 29.9 °C
Annual rainfall 874 mm 1,383 mm 3,354 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 90 mm 125 mm 314 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 1,190 research-grade observations of Drynaria rigidula 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 27 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.

  • Aglaomorpha rigidula (Sw.) Hovenkamp & S.Linds.
  • Drynaria baudouinii E.Fourn.
  • Drynaria diversifolia J.Sm.
  • Drynaria gaudichaudii Bory; Gaud.
  • Drynaria glaucistipes J.Sm.
  • Drynaria pinnata Fée
  • Drynaria rigidula f. cristata (F.M.Bailey) Domin
  • Drynaria rigidula var. koordersii Alderw.
  • Drynaria rigidula var. vidgenii (F.M.Bailey) Domin
  • Drynaria rigidula var. whitei (Bailey) F.Ballard
  • Goniophlebium rigidulum T.Moore
  • Phymatodes gaudichaudii (Bory) C.Presl
  • Polypodium baudouini Baker
  • Polypodium baudouinii (E.Fourn.) Baker
  • Polypodium cuspidatum Moritz
  • Polypodium diversifolium R.Br.
  • Polypodium gaudichaudii Bory
  • Polypodium glaucistipes Wall.
  • Polypodium punctatum f. cristatum (Bailey) Domin
  • Polypodium rigidulum Sw.
  • Polypodium rigidulum var. cristatum F.M.Bailey
  • Polypodium rigidulum var. diversipinnae F.M.Bailey
  • Polypodium rigidulum var. vidgenii F.M.Bailey
  • Polypodium rigidulum var. whitei F.M.Bailey

and 3 more.

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.