Dryopteris komaroviiKossinsky

WFO wfo-0001115773 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 komarovii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-04 / obs. 131264045
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32368848
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131263975
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32368856
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131264012
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32368862
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131264074
Dryopteris komarovii, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76125485

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris komarovii is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, Kazakhstan, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tibet, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina North-CentralChina South-CentralKazakhstanQinghaiTadzhikistanTaiwanTibetEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Dryopteris komarovii, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Kazakhstan KAZ
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

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 2 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 barbigera subsp. komarovii (Kossinsky) Fraser-Jenk.
  • Dryopteris subbarbigera Ching

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.