Gleichenia microphyllaR.Br.

WFO wfo-0001220327 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-04 / obs. 178192170
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. b Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174366592
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by James K. Douch
fig. c James K. Douch, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173045067
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Miguel de Salas
fig. d Miguel de Salas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156615577
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. e Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162496075
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Miguel de Salas
fig. f Miguel de Salas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 108977973
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Pieter Pelser
fig. g Pieter Pelser, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109590102
Gleichenia microphylla, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. h Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107170352

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000229412
Filed as
Gleichenia microphylla R.Br.
Det. by
Perrie, Leon
Collected
Brown, R. 1802-01-01
Origin
AU
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Gleichenia microphylla is native: Borneo, Cambodia, Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New Caledonia BorneoCambodiaMalayaMalukuPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNew South WalesNew Zealand NorthNew Zealand SouthSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoriaNew Caledonia
Native distribution of Gleichenia microphylla, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand North NZN
New Zealand South NZS
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,537 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.0 °C 5.9 °C 10.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.2 °C 21.9 °C 25.7 °C
Annual rainfall 677 mm 1,104 mm 2,114 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 78 mm 199 mm 407 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,537 research-grade observations of Gleichenia microphylla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Calymella microphylla C.Presl
  • Calymella semivestita (Labill.) Ching
  • Gleichenia circinnata var. concolor Domin
  • Gleichenia circinnata var. microphylla (R.Br.) Maiden & Betche
  • Gleichenia circinnata var. patens (Colenso) Domin
  • Gleichenia circinnata var. semivestita (Labill.) T.Moore
  • Gleichenia microphylla var. semivestita (Labill.) Alderw.
  • Gleichenia patens Colenso
  • Gleichenia semivestita Labill.
  • Gleicheniastrum lowei Nakai
  • Gleicheniastrum microphyllum (R.Br.) C.Presl
  • Gleicheniastrum microphyllum var. semivestitum (Labill.) Nakai
  • Gleicheniastrum semivestitum (Labill.) C.Presl
  • Mertensia microphylla (R.Br.) Kaulf.
  • Platyzoma recurvum Desv.
  • Pteris recurva (Desv.) Christenh.

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.