Lastreopsis tenera(R.Br.) Tindale

WFO wfo-0001115281 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-22 / obs. 130229215
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123855293
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197015638
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130229187
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123855275
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197015728
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130229230
Lastreopsis tenera, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197016029

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000235769
Filed as
Lastreopsis tenera (R.Br.) Tindale
Det. by
Price, M.G.
Collected
Price, M.G. 1974-05-14
Origin
PH
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Lastreopsis tenera is native: Taiwan, India, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Queensland, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu TaiwanIndiaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraQueenslandFijiNew Caledonia Vanuatu
Native distribution of Lastreopsis tenera, 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
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Fiji FIJ PACIFIC
New Caledonia NWC
Vanuatu VAN
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 17 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.

  • Aspidium decompositum var. tenerum (R.Br.) F.Muell.
  • Aspidium gardnerianum Mett.
  • Aspidium recedens (J.Sm. ex T.Moore) E.J.Lowe
  • Aspidium tenerum (R.Br.) Spreng.
  • Ctenitis recedens (J.Sm. ex T.Moore) Copel.
  • Ctenitis simozawae (Tagawa) Ching
  • Ctenitis tenera (R.Br.) Copel.
  • Dryopteris recedens (J.Sm. ex T.Moore) Kuntze
  • Dryopteris simozawae Tagawa
  • Dryopteris tenera (R.Br.) C.Chr.
  • Lastrea recedens J.Sm.
  • Lastrea tenera T.Moore
  • Lastreopsis recedens (J.Sm. ex T.Moore) Ching
  • Lastreopsis simozawae (Tagawa) Tagawa
  • Nephrodium recedens (J.Sm. ex T.Moore) Hook.
  • Nephrodium tenerum R.Br.
  • Polypodium recedens J.Sm.

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.

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