Leptogramma mollissima(Fisch. ex Kunze) Ching

WFO wfo-0001126946 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by harum.koh
fig. a harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-09-27 / obs. 97478687
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by harum.koh
fig. b harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 92398910
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. c Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46332814
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by harum.koh
fig. d harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19266482
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 97478701
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 92398916
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. g Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46332892
Leptogramma mollissima, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130948839

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Leptogramma mollissima is native: East Himalaya, India, Nepal, West Himalaya East HimalayaIndiaNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Leptogramma mollissima, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Nepal NEP
West Himalaya WHM

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 31 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.

  • Gymnogramma mollissima Fisch. ex Kunze
  • Gymnogramma totta var. mollissima Kunze
  • Lastrea mollissima (Fisch. ex Kunze) Okuyama
  • Lastrea mollissima (Fisch. ex Kunze) Akasawa
  • Lastrea mollissima f. cristata (Nakai) Okuyama
  • Leptogramma mollissima f. pilosissima (H.Ito) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma mollissima f. takaoyamensis Hayashi
  • Leptogramma mollissima f. yakusimensis (H.Itô) Sa.Kurata
  • Leptogramma mollissima var. cristata (Nakai) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma mollissima var. pilosissima H.Itô
  • Leptogramma mollissima var. yakusimensis (H.Ito) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma pozoi monstr.cristata (Nakai) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma pozoi f. pilosissima (H.Itô) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma pozoi subsp. mollissima (Kunze) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma pozoi var. yakusimensis (H.Itô) Nakaike
  • Leptogramma totta f. cristata Nakai
  • Leptogramma totta f. pilosissima (H.Itô) H.Itô
  • Leptogramma totta var. pilosissima H.Ito
  • Leptogramma totta var. yakusimensis H.Ito
  • Stegnogramma mollissima (Kunze) Nakaike
  • Stegnogramma mollissima (Kunze) Fraser-Jenk.
  • Stegnogramma mollissima f. pilosissima (H.Ito) Nakaike
  • Stegnogramma mollissima var. truncata Kholia
  • Stegnogramma mollissima var. yakusimensis (H.Ito) Nakaike

and 7 more.

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.