Dryopteris lepidopodaHayata

WFO wfo-0001116385 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 lepidopoda, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-09 / obs. 173390078
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169178522
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158828955
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93575524
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32373579
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173390086
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169178505
Dryopteris lepidopoda, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46445800

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris lepidopoda is native: China South-Central, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, West Himalaya China South-CentralTaiwanTibetAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Dryopteris lepidopoda, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 14 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.

  • Christella khasiana H.Lév.
  • Dryopteris filix-mas subsp. khasiana (C.B.Clarke) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris junlianensis H.S.Kung
  • Dryopteris latibasis Ching
  • Dryopteris lepidopoda var. phaeocoma Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris longistipes Ching
  • Dryopteris neolepidopoda Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris nigra Ching
  • Dryopteris paleacea var. khasiana (C.B.Clarke) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris placea var. khasiana (C.B.Clarke) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris taiwanicola Tagawa
  • Nephrodium filix-mas var. khasianum C.B.Clarke
  • Nephrodium parallelogrammum f. khasiana (C.B.Clarke) C.Hope
  • Nephrodium parallelogrammum var. khasianum (C.B.Clarke) C.Hope

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.