Prosaptia obliquata(Blume) Mett.

WFO wfo-0001118611 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-13 / obs. 158983818
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158983843
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32040986
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158983829
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32040987
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32040985
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. g Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147442840
Prosaptia obliquata, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147442853

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Prosaptia obliquata is native: Hainan, Taiwan, Borneo, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam HainanTaiwanBorneoIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Prosaptia obliquata, 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
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Hainan CHH ASIA-TEMPERATE
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.

Also published as 11 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 blumei Fée
  • Cryptosorus dionaea Fée
  • Cryptosorus elasticus Fée
  • Cryptosorus obliquatus (Blume) J.Sm.
  • Ctenopteris obliquata (Blume) Copel.
  • Ctenopteris rufescens Kunze
  • Grammitis obliquata (Blume) Hassk.
  • Polypodium obliquatum Blume
  • Polypodium schenkii Harr.
  • Prosaptia idenbergensis Parris
  • Prosaptia obliquata (Blume) C.Chr. & Tardieu

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.