Dryopteris scottii(Bedd.) Ching

WFO wfo-0001107309 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 scottii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 173179489
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109852608
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109852704
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63094065
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173179446
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109852625
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181918634
Dryopteris scottii, photographed by 沈玟伶(Wen-Ling Shen)
fig. h 沈玟伶(Wen-Ling Shen), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64283004

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris scottii is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Taiwan, Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamBorneoEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Dryopteris scottii, 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
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
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 10 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 grossa (Christ) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris hirtipes var. exinvolucrata (C.B.Clarke) Sledge ex Panigrahi & Basu
  • Dryopteris nigrisquama Hayata
  • Dryopteris nigrisquama f. subdecipiens (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Dryopteris subdecipiens Hayata
  • Nephrodium hirtipes var. exinvolucrata C.B.Clarke
  • Phegopteris grossa Christ
  • Phegopteris melanolepis Alderw.
  • Phegopteris scottii (Bedd.) Bedd.
  • Polypodium scottii Bedd.

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.