Drynaria sparsisora(Desv.) T.Moore

WFO wfo-0001115918 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Drynaria sparsisora, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. a Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204785954
Drynaria sparsisora, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204785968
Drynaria sparsisora, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. c Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204785986
Drynaria sparsisora, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. d Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204786003

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Drynaria sparsisora is native: Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland Bismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueensland
Native distribution of Drynaria sparsisora, 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
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
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
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 57 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.8 °C 17.3 °C 22.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.0 °C 28.3 °C 31.0 °C
Annual rainfall 928 mm 1,918 mm 3,177 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 61 mm 106 mm 489 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 57 research-grade observations of Drynaria sparsisora 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 6 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 sparsisora (Desv.) Hovenkamp & S.Linds.
  • Drynaria linnei Bedd.
  • Drynaria quercifolia var. sparsisora (Desv.) Domin
  • Polypodium linnei Bory
  • Polypodium quercifolium var. linnaea (Bory) F.M.Bailey
  • Polypodium sparsisorum Desv.

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.