Hymenophyllum peltatum(Poir.) Desv.

WFO wfo-0001107539 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by Sarah Richardson
fig. a Sarah Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-24 / obs. 159465146
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by John Steel
fig. b John Steel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117908476
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. c Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56654885
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by Joe Potter Butler
fig. d Joe Potter Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30810467
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. e Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32941066
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. f naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12522129
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by Alice Shanks
fig. g Alice Shanks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28238998
Hymenophyllum peltatum, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. h naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177013827

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
807930
Filed as
Hymenophyllum peltatum (Poir.) Desv.
Det. by
G. Jones 1966-01-01
Collected
A. C. Brade 1940-07-11
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Hymenophyllum peltatum is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Réunion, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Crozet Is., Kerguelen, Macquarie Is., Marion-Prince Edward Is., Tristan da Cunha, Borneo, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Prince Edward I., Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Peru Cape ProvincesDR CongoFree StateKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarRwandaTanzaniaUgandaKerguelenBorneoNew GuineaNew South WalesNew Zealand NorthNew Zealand SouthQueenslandTasmaniaVictoriaPrince Edward I.Argentina SouthBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastChile CentralChile SouthColombiaPeru RéunionCrozet Is.Macquarie Is.Marion-Prince Edward Is.Tristan da Cunha
Native distribution of Hymenophyllum peltatum, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Réunion REU
Rwanda RWA
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Argentina South AGS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Colombia CLM
Peru PER
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand North NZN
New Zealand South NZS
Queensland QLD
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC
Crozet Is. CRZ ANTARCTICA
Kerguelen KEG
Macquarie Is. MAQ
Marion-Prince Edward Is. MPE
Tristan da Cunha TDC
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
New Guinea NWG
Prince Edward I. PEI NORTHERN AMERICA

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 159 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -3.4 °C 2.2 °C 5.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.9 °C 17.9 °C 23.8 °C
Annual rainfall 793 mm 1,629 mm 3,755 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 83 mm 290 mm 707 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 159 research-grade observations of Hymenophyllum peltatum 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 22 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.

  • Hymenophyllum menziesii C.Presl
  • Hymenophyllum mettenii Bosch
  • Hymenophyllum meyeri C.Presl
  • Hymenophyllum nahuelhuapiense f. densipinnata Diem & J.S.Licht.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. elegans Diem & J.S.Licht.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. elongatum Diem & J.S.Licht.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. imbricatum Diem & J.S.Licht.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. menziesii (C.Presl) C.Chr.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. minus Diem & J.S.Licht.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. patagonicum Diem & J.S.Licht.
  • Hymenophyllum peltatum var. peltatum
  • Hymenophyllum perfissum Copel.
  • Hymenophyllum tunbridgense var. peltatum (Poir.) Kuntze
  • Hymenophyllum tunbridgense var. unilaterale (Willd.) G.M.Thomson
  • Hymenophyllum tunbridgense var. wilsonii (Hook.) Sadeb.
  • Hymenophyllum tunbrigense var. peltatum (Poir.) Kuntze
  • Hymenophyllum tunbrigense var. wilsoni (Hook.) Hook.
  • Hymenophyllum uncinatum Sim
  • Hymenophyllum unilaterale Bory ex Willd.
  • Meringium peltatum Copel.
  • Meringium peltatum (Poir.) Copel.
  • Trichomanes peltatum Poir.

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.