Dryopteris immixtaChing

WFO wfo-0001115064 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. a harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-10-11 / obs. 99778190
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. b harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93734002
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. c harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93733961
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. d harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2836989
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127423318
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127423436
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. g harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127422869
Dryopteris immixta, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 126302299

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3388305
Filed as
Dryopteris immixta Ching
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
C. Tan 1997-01-12
Origin
CN
The sheet
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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris immixta is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapan KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Dryopteris immixta, 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 North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS

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 16 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.

  • Dryopteris bissetiana var. hikonensis (H.Itô) H.Itô
  • Dryopteris consimilis Ching & P.C.Chiu
  • Dryopteris fuyangensis Ching & P.C.Chiu
  • Dryopteris hikonensis (H.Itô) Nakaike
  • Dryopteris hikonensis monstr.cristata (T.Ueno) Nakaike
  • Dryopteris lungjingensis Ching & P.C.Chiu
  • Dryopteris pacifica (Nakai) Tagawa
  • Dryopteris paravaria Ching & P.C.Chiu
  • Dryopteris pudouensis Ching
  • Dryopteris quadrifida Ching ex K.H.Shing & J.F.Cheng
  • Dryopteris shanghaiensis Ching & P.C.Chiu
  • Dryopteris varia subsp. hikonensis (H.Itô) Sugim.
  • Dryopteris varia var. hikonensis (H.Itô) Sa.Kurata
  • Dryopteris yushanensis Ching & P.C.Chiu
  • Polystichum hololepis var. hikonense H.Itô
  • Polystichum pacificum Nakai

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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