Hypopterygium didictyonMüll.Hal.

WFO wfo-0001162728 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.

Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. a Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-12-14 / obs. 60319298
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. b Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 5455469
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. c Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2845134
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. d Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60319306
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. e Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 5469643
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. f Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174736353
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. g Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174736315
Hypopterygium didictyon, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. h Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174736352

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Where it actually grows measured, from 102 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -2.3 °C 3.8 °C 9.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.0 °C 18.5 °C 23.0 °C
Annual rainfall 830 mm 1,519 mm 3,674 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 152 mm 273 mm 743 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 102 research-grade observations of Hypopterygium didictyon 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 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.

  • Hypopterygium glaucum Sull.
  • Hypopterygium hillii Colenso
  • Hypopterygium marginatum Colenso
  • Hypopterygium novae-seelandiae Müll.Hal.
  • Hypopterygium novae-seelandiae f. glaucum (Sull.) Vitt
  • Hypopterygium novae-seelandiae subsp. viridulum Mitt. ex Kindb.
  • Hypopterygium novae-seelandiae var. chilense Lorentz
  • Hypopterygium novae-seelandiae var. glaucum (Sull.) Dixon
  • Hypopterygium novae-seelandiae var. nudicaule Dixon
  • Hypopterygium pachyneuron Colenso
  • Hypopterygium pallidisetum Wilson
  • Hypopterygium smithianum Hook.f. & Wilson
  • Hypopterygium smithianum var. minus Wilson
  • Hypopterygium tasmanicum Müll.Hal.
  • Hypopterygium vulcanicum Colenso

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.