Hypolepis rugosula(Labill.) J.Sm.

WFO wfo-0001111451 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-11 / obs. 112599909
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. b Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65158880
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. c Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60093333
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. d Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20223384
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. e naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12882772
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by Joe Potter Butler
fig. f Joe Potter Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10178247
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. g naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8499760
Hypolepis rugosula, photographed by Ian Armitage
fig. h Ian Armitage, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8631557

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Hypolepis rugosula is native: Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Tristan da Cunha, New Guinea, Chatham Is., New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South, Haiti, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is. MadagascarNew GuineaNew South WalesNew Zealand NorthNew Zealand SouthQueenslandSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoriaWestern AustraliaArgentina NortheastArgentina SouthChile CentralChile SouthHaitiJamaica MauritiusRéunionTristan da CunhaChatham Is.
Native distribution of Hypolepis rugosula, 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
Chatham Is. CTM AUSTRALASIA
New South Wales NSW
New Zealand North NZN
New Zealand South NZS
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Juan Fernández Is. JNF
Madagascar MDG AFRICA
Mauritius MAU
Réunion REU
Tristan da Cunha TDC ANTARCTICA
New Guinea NWG ASIA-TROPICAL

Not drawn on the map: Juan Fernández Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 119 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.9 °C 5.2 °C 8.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.9 °C 20.5 °C 25.6 °C
Annual rainfall 639 mm 953 mm 2,206 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 66 mm 161 mm 315 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 119 research-grade observations of Hypolepis rugosula 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 36 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.

  • Cheilanthes remota Kunze
  • Cheilanthes rudis Kunze
  • Cheilanthes viscosa Carmich.
  • Dryopteris punctata subsp. rugosula (Labill.) C.Chr.
  • Dryopteris punctata var. rugosula (Labill.) Domin
  • Gymnogramma helenensis Fée
  • Hypolepis archboldii Copel.
  • Hypolepis goetzei Hieron. ex Reimers
  • Hypolepis hauman-merckii Hicken
  • Hypolepis helenensis Fée
  • Hypolepis juergensii Rosenst.
  • Hypolepis lactea Brownsey & Chinnock
  • Hypolepis poeppigiana Mett.
  • Hypolepis pulcherrima J.K.Underw. & Maxon
  • Hypolepis repens var. colorata Christ
  • Hypolepis rudis (Kunze) Mett.
  • Hypolepis rufobarbata (Colenso) N.A.Wakef.
  • Hypolepis rugosula subsp. brownseyana Schwartsb. & J.Prado
  • Hypolepis rugosula var. africana C.Chr.
  • Hypolepis rugosula var. typica C.Chr. & Skottsb.
  • Hypolepis rugosula var. villosoviscida (Thouars) C.Chr.
  • Hypolepis villosoviscida (Thouars) Tardieu
  • Nephrodium rugulosum Copel.
  • Nephrodium viscidum Watson

and 12 more.

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.