Dryopteris athamantica(Kunze) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0001110870 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-02-22 / obs. 64934259
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64327313
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. c Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28353760
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15649432
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64934271
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64327327
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. g Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28353619
Dryopteris athamantica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15649434

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris athamantica is native: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateGabonGuineaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Dryopteris athamantica, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Gabon GAB
Guinea GUI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 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.

  • Aspidium athamanticum Kunze
  • Aspidium filix-panna Lucan.
  • Lastrea athamantica Moore
  • Lastrea plantii Moore
  • Nephrodium athamanticum (Kunze) Hook.
  • Nephrodium eurylepium Peter

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.