Dryopteris zayuensisChing & S.K.Wu

WFO wfo-0001126481 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 zayuensis, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. a Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-24 / obs. 81141419
Dryopteris zayuensis, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. b Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81141434
Dryopteris zayuensis, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. c Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81141455

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Dryopteris zayuensis is native: China South-Central, Qinghai, Taiwan, Tibet, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya China South-CentralQinghaiTaiwanTibetEast HimalayaNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Dryopteris zayuensis, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Qinghai CHQ
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
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 8 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 discreta Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris incisolobata Ching
  • Dryopteris nyalamense Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris nyalamense var. angustipinna Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris nyalamensis Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris qandoensis Ching
  • Dryopteris squamifera Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Dryopteris tsangpoensis 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.