Polystichum balansaeChrist

WFO wfo-0001116935 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Polystichum balansae, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-11-27 / obs. 170579811
Polystichum balansae, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170579821
Polystichum balansae, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170579808

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Polystichum balansae is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, East Himalaya, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanEast HimalayaVietnam
Native distribution of Polystichum balansae, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Vietnam VIE

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 7 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.

  • Cyrtomium balansae (Christ) C.Chr.
  • Cyrtomium balansae f. balansae
  • Cyrtomium balansae f. edentatum Ching & K.H.Shing
  • Cyrtomium kwantungense Ching
  • Phanerophlebiopsis balansae (Christ) Fraser-Jenk. & Baishya
  • Polystichum anomophyllum var. miyajimense (Kodama) Nakai
  • Polystichum miyasimense Kodama

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.

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