Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis(C.Chr.) Holttum

WFO wfo-0001127154 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166962294
Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163116227
Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166962254
Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163116165
Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166962273
Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163116198
Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166962282

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, East Himalaya, Nepal, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanEast HimalayaNepalVietnam
Native distribution of Pseudophegopteris hirtirachis, 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
Taiwan TAI
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
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 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.

  • Dryopteris christii H.Lév.
  • Dryopteris hirtirachis C.Chr.
  • Macrothelypteris hirtirachis (C.Chr.) Pic.Serm.
  • Phegopteris hirtirachis (C.Chr.) Christenh.
  • Phegopteris pyrrhorhachis var. glabrata (C.B.Clarke) Tagawa
  • Phegopteris pyrrhorhachis var. hirtirachis (C.Chr.) Tagawa
  • Polypodium distans var. glabratum C.B.Clarke
  • Pseudophegopteris pyrrhorhachis var. glabrata (C.B.Clarke) Holttum
  • Thelypteris brunnea var. glabrata (C.B.Clarke) Ching
  • Thelypteris brunnea var. hirtirachis (C.Chr.) Ching
  • Thelypteris microstegia subsp. hirtirachis (C.Chr.) Fraser-Jenk.
  • Thelypteris paludosa var. glabrata (Clarke) K.Iwats.
  • Thelypteris pyrrhorhachis subsp. hirtirachis (C.Chr.) Fraser-Jenk.

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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