Dryopteris cycadina(Franch. & Sav.) C.Chr.

WFO wfo-0001115058 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-28 / obs. 198474213
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169179007
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129267637
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130932498
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by chiuluan
fig. e chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61884306
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. f Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 6052478
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. g Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2877859
Dryopteris cycadina, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63156513

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris cycadina is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan China South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwan Korea
Native distribution of Dryopteris cycadina, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Taiwan TAI

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 cycadinum Franch. & Sav.
  • Dryopteris cycadina var. melanolepis Nakai
  • Dryopteris fengyangshanensis Ching & C.F.Zhang
  • Dryopteris longirostrata Ching ex K.H.Shing & J.F.Cheng
  • Dryopteris pseudatrata Ching
  • Dryopteris rigidiuscula Ching ex K.H.Shing & J.F.Cheng

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.

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