Dryopteris squamiseta(Hook.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0001108290 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166960515
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166959005
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163065610
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163065630
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166960492
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166959100
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163065618
Dryopteris squamiseta, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163065569

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris squamiseta is native: Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China South-Central, Taiwan, Tibet, East Himalaya, Nepal CameroonCape ProvincesEquatorial GuineaGulf of Guinea Is.KenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZimbabweChina South-CentralTaiwanTibetEast HimalayaNepal Réunion
Native distribution of Dryopteris squamiseta, 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
Cameroon CMN AFRICA
Cape Provinces CPP
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Rwanda RWA
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP

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.

  • Aspidium squamisetum (Hook.) Kuhn
  • Ctenitis thrichorhachis (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Ctenitis trichorhachis (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Dryopteris atrosetosa Rosenst.
  • Dryopteris buchanani (Baker) Kuntze
  • Dryopteris trichorhachis Hayata
  • Lastrea buchananii (Baker) Bedd.
  • Nephrodium buchananii Baker
  • Nephrodium squamisetum Hook.
  • Nothoperanema squamisetum (Hook.) 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.