Lepisorus fortuni(T.Moore) C.M.Kuo

WFO wfo-0001233442 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-11 / obs. 179902854
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172866380
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173183318
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 111338654
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 109729394
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 52125851
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32037539
Lepisorus fortuni, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161461204

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K001909556
Filed as
Lepisorus fortuni (T.Moore) C.M.Kuo
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
Chang, C.S.; Jeon, J.I.; Lim, H.I.; Park, S.K.; Li, X.J. 2009-07-25
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Lepisorus fortuni is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Malaya, Myanmar, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanTibetAssamMalayaMyanmarVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Lepisorus fortuni, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS
Ogasawara-shoto OGA
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Vietnam VIE

Not drawn on the map: Ogasawara-shoto. 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 531 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.6 °C 9.4 °C 13.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.4 °C 27.6 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,967 mm 3,768 mm 4,706 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 139 mm 344 mm 809 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 531 research-grade observations of Lepisorus fortuni 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.

  • Drynaria fortunii T.Moore
  • Lepisorus undulatus Ching & Z.Y.Liu
  • Microsorum chinense (Mett. ex Kuhn) Fraser-Jenk.
  • Microsorum excelsum Ching & S.K.Wu
  • Microsorum fortuni (T.Moore) Ching
  • Microsorum henryi (Christ) C.M.Kuo
  • Microsorum takedae (Nakai) H.Itô
  • Neocheiropteris chinensis (Mett. ex Kuhn) Fraser-Jenk., Pariyar & Kandel
  • Neocheiropteris fortuni (T.Moore) Bosman ex Fraser-Jenk., Pariyar & Kandel
  • Neocheiropteris henryi (Christ) Fraser-Jenk.
  • Neolepisorus fortuni (T.Moore) Li Wang
  • Neolepisorus phyllomanes f. deltoideus Ching
  • Phymatodes takedai Nakai
  • Polypodium bandoi C.Chr.
  • Polypodium chinense Mett. ex Kuhn
  • Polypodium deltoideum Baker
  • Polypodium fortuni (T.Moore) E.J.Lowe
  • Polypodium henryi Christ
  • Polypodium normale var. polysorum Baker
  • Polypodium rosthornii Diels
  • Polypodium sinense Christ
  • Polypodium takedae (Nakai) C.Chr.

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.