Goniophlebium persicifolium(Desv.) Bedd.

WFO wfo-0001115946 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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 persicifolium, photographed by alessandradalia
fig. a alessandradalia, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-07-26 / obs. 22025503

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
205010
Filed as
Goniophlebium persicifolium (Desv.) Bedd.
Det. by
D. H. Lorence; R. C. Moran 2006-01-01
Collected
C. Trauernicht 2005-06-15
Origin
FM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Goniophlebium persicifolium is native: Hainan, Taiwan, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is., Fiji, Marianas, Vanuatu HainanTaiwanBorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamFiji Caroline Is.MarianasVanuatu
Native distribution of Goniophlebium persicifolium, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ
Marianas MRN
Vanuatu VAN
Hainan CHH ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 15 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 cuspidatum (Blume) C.Presl
  • Goniophlebium grandidens Fée
  • Goniophlebium ponapense Copel.
  • Goniophlebium rotense Hosok.
  • Phegopteris persicifolia Christ
  • Polypodium colpothrix Kunze
  • Polypodium cuspidatum Blume
  • Polypodium grandidens Kunze
  • Polypodium integrius Copel.
  • Polypodium koningsbergeri Alderw.
  • Polypodium persicifolium Desv.
  • Polypodium persicifolium var. mettenii Rosenst.
  • Polypodium phlebodioides Copel.
  • Schellolepis cuspidata J.Sm.
  • Schellolepis persicifolia (Desv.) Pic.Serm.

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.