Hypolytrum nemorum(Vahl) Spreng.

woodland hypolytrum

WFO wfo-0000445228 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypolytrum nemorum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-12-05 / obs. 106517464

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
202859
Filed as
Hypolytrum nemorum subsp. vitiense (C.B.Clarke) T.Koyama
Det. by
D. H. Lorence 2005-12-01
Collected
C. Trauernicht 2005-02-09
Origin
FM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Hypolytrum nemorum is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland, Caroline Is., Fiji China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueenslandFiji Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Hypolytrum nemorum, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ

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 204 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.2 °C 13.3 °C 24.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.3 °C 29.1 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 2,127 mm 3,702 mm 4,557 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 87 mm 651 mm 850 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 204 research-grade observations of Hypolytrum nemorum 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 37 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.

  • Albikia schoenoides J.Presl & C.Presl
  • Albikia scirpoides J.Presl & C.Presl
  • Ficinia anomala (Retz.) Steud.
  • Hypaelyptum nemorum (Vahl) P.Beauv.
  • Hypolytrum amplectens Valck.Sur.
  • Hypolytrum anomalum (Retz.) Domin
  • Hypolytrum anomalum var. refractum Domin
  • Hypolytrum anomalum var. typicum Domin
  • Hypolytrum costato-nux C.B.Clarke
  • Hypolytrum depauperatum (Ohwi) Ohwi & T.Koyama
  • Hypolytrum diandrum (Roxb.) A.Dietr.
  • Hypolytrum ensifolium Willd. ex Kunth
  • Hypolytrum formosanum Ohwi
  • Hypolytrum fuscorubens T.Koyama
  • Hypolytrum giganteum Wall. ex Nees
  • Hypolytrum latifolium Rich.
  • Hypolytrum latifolium var. depauperatum Ohwi
  • Hypolytrum latifolium var. minus Thwaites
  • Hypolytrum latifolium var. penangense (C.B.Clarke) Ridl.
  • Hypolytrum microcarpum S.T.Blake
  • Hypolytrum minus Ridl.
  • Hypolytrum myrianthum Miq.
  • Hypolytrum penangense C.B.Clarke
  • Hypolytrum philippense C.B.Clarke

and 13 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol HYNE4. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.