Lepisorus microphyllus(C.Presl) Ebihara & T.Fujiw.

WFO wfo-1000051590 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by Luka S. (someplant)
fig. a Luka S. (someplant), CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205777303
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190242405
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by chiuluan
fig. c chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181423935
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178171702
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by chiuluan
fig. e chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171849973
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177541368
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177538077
Lepisorus microphyllus, photographed by chiuluan
fig. h chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169976115

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Where it actually grows measured, from 2,034 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.5 °C 11.6 °C 14.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.5 °C 29.2 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,609 mm 3,259 mm 4,680 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 96 mm 456 mm 824 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 2,034 research-grade observations of Lepisorus microphyllus 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 18 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.

  • Drymoglossum carnosum var. obovatum Harr.
  • Drymoglossum microphyllum (Pr.) C.Chr.
  • Drymoglossum nobukoanum Makino
  • Drymoglossum obovatum (Harr.) Christ
  • Drymoglossum obovatum var. lutchuense Nakai
  • Drymoglossum spatulatum C.Presl
  • Lemmaphyllum carnosum subsp. microphyllum (C.Presl) Fraser-Jenk. & Kandel
  • Lemmaphyllum carnosum var. microphyllum (C.Presl) X.P.Wei
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum C.Presl
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum var. lutchuense (Nakai) C.Chr.
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum var. nobukoanum (Makino) Nakaike
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum var. obovatum (Harr.) C.Chr.
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum var. spathulatum (C.Presl) Nakaike
  • Lemmaphyllum minimum S.H.Fu
  • Lemmaphyllum nobukoanum (Makino) Ching
  • Lemmaphyllum spatulatum C.Presl
  • Lemmaphyllum squamosum C.Chr.
  • Taenitis microphylla Mett.

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.