Oreogrammitis curtisii(Baker) Parris & Sundue

WFO wfo-1000023874 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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.

Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 173179686
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129846528
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128610215
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173179656
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11475860
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129846564
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128610099
Oreogrammitis curtisii, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11475857

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Oreogrammitis curtisii is native: Taiwan, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera TaiwanBorneoPhilippinesSulawesiSumatera
Native distribution of Oreogrammitis curtisii, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 15 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.

  • Cryptosorus decrescens (Christ) Nakai ex H.Itô
  • Cryptosorus decrescens var. blechnifrons (Hayata) Nakai ex H.Itô
  • Ctenopteris curtisii (Baker) Copel.
  • Grammitis blechnifrons (Hayata) Christenh.
  • Grammitis curtisii (Baker) Christenh.
  • Grammitis decrescens (Christ) Christenh.
  • Oreogrammitis blechnifrons (Hayata) T.C.Hsu
  • Oreogrammitis elata Parris
  • Oreogrammitis gibbsiae Parris
  • Polypodium curtisii Baker
  • Polypodium decrescens Christ
  • Polypodium decrescens var. blechnifrons Hayata
  • Themelium blechnifrons (Hayata) Parris
  • Themelium curtisii (Baker) Parris
  • Themelium decrescens (Christ) Parris

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.