Dryopteris oligodonta(Desv.) Pic.Serm.

WFO wfo-0000143162 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. a Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203012470
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175245726
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175245125
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. d Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 170205778
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Ina Siebert
fig. e Ina Siebert, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61140071
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Asher P Higgins
fig. f Asher P Higgins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192570516
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Asher P Higgins
fig. g Asher P Higgins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192571313
Dryopteris oligodonta, photographed by Asher P Higgins
fig. h Asher P Higgins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192571420

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris oligodonta is native: Canary Is., Cape Verde Canary Is.Cape Verde
Native distribution of Dryopteris oligodonta, 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
Canary Is. CNY AFRICA
Cape Verde CVI

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 12 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.

  • Allantodia oligantha (Desv.) Desv.
  • Aspidium aquilinoides Bolle
  • Aspidium canariense A.Braun
  • Aspidium elongatum Willd.
  • Aspidium oliganthum Desv.
  • Aspidium oligodonton Desv.
  • Dryopteris elongata var. simplex A.Chev.
  • Dryopteris oligantha (Desv.) C.Chr.
  • Lastrea canariensis T.Moore
  • Nephrodium canariense Kiaersk.
  • Nephrodium oligodontum Desv.
  • Polystichum canariense Keyserl.

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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