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.
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.
Native range 14 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Assam | ASS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Cambodia | CBD | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | |
| Laos | LAO | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| Sumatera | SUM | |
| Thailand | THA | |
| Vietnam | VIE | |
| China North-Central | CHN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China South-Central | CHC | |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Hainan | CHH | |
| Taiwan | TAI |
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 167 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 2.1 °C | 4.7 °C | 10.9 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.3 °C | 22.2 °C | 27.3 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 2,555 mm | 3,590 mm | 4,616 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 109 mm | 222 mm | 451 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 167 research-grade observations of Lepisorus rostratus 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 13 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.
- Lemmaphyllum carnosum var. rostratum (Bedd.) Hovenkamp
- Lemmaphyllum rostratum (Bedd.) Tagawa
- Lemmaphyllum subrostratum (C.Chr.) Ching
- Lepidogrammitis rostrata (Bedd.) Ching
- Lepidogrammitis sikkimensis S.R.Ghosh
- Lepidogrammitis subrostrata (C.Chr.) Ching
- Lepisorus rostratus (Hook.) B.K.Nayar & Kaur
- Lepisorus subrostratus (C.Chr.) C.Chr. & Tardieu
- Phymatopsis rostrata (Bedd.) J.Sm.
- Pleopeltis rostrata Bedd.
- Pleopeltis subrostrata Lacaita
- Polypodium rostratum Hook.
- Polypodium subrostratum C.Chr.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.