Goniophlebium fieldingianum(Kunze ex Mett.) T.Moore

WFO wfo-0001227633 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Goniophlebium fieldingianum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166811695
Goniophlebium fieldingianum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166811665
Goniophlebium fieldingianum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166811648
Goniophlebium fieldingianum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166811632

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Goniophlebium fieldingianum is native: China South-Central, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, West Himalaya China South-CentralTaiwanTibetAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalThailandWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Goniophlebium fieldingianum, 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
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 11 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.

  • Goniophlebium microrhizoma (C.B.Clarke ex Baker) Bedd.
  • Metapolypodium fieldingianum (Kunze ex Mett.) Shalimov & Mazumdar
  • Metapolypodium microrhizoma (C.B.Clarke ex Baker) S.G.Lu & L.H.Yang
  • Polypodiastrum microrhizoma (C.B.Clarke) Ching
  • Polypodiodes fieldingiana (Kunze ex Mett.) Fraser-Jenk., Kandel & Pariyar
  • Polypodiodes microrhizoma (Clarke) Ching
  • Polypodium deorsipinnatum Copel.
  • Polypodium fieldingianum Kunze ex Mett.
  • Polypodium microrhizoma Clarke; Bak.
  • Polypodium subapertum Rosenst. ex Rödl-Linder
  • Polypodium taliense Christ

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.