Pteris fauriei | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pteris fauriei, photographed by chiuluan — fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-31 / obs. 185458069

Pteris fauriei, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157891384

Pteris fauriei, photographed by 葉子 — fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 95364985

Pteris fauriei, photographed by 古淑玲 — fig. d 古淑玲, CC0 1.0 / obs. 69106293

Pteris fauriei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin — fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22567661

Pteris fauriei, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192786973

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Pteris fauriei, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Hainan	CHH
Japan	JAP
Korea	KOR
Nansei-shoto	NNS
Taiwan	TAI
Philippines	PHI	ASIA-TROPICAL
Vietnam	VIE
Caroline Is.	CRL	PACIFIC

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 581 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	8.8 °C	12.4 °C	18.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	26.8 °C	29.2 °C	31.1 °C
Annual rainfall	1,960 mm	3,373 mm	4,483 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	110 mm	566 mm	842 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 581 research-grade observations of Pteris fauriei that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.

Pteris fauriei var. rigida Hieron.
Pteris guizhouensis Ching
Pteris khasiana subsp. fauriei (Hieron.) Fraser-Jenk.
Pteris linearis var. fauriei (Hieron.) C.Chr. & Tardieu
Pteris longipinnula Christ
Pteris quadriaurita Hook.
Pteris rigidula Copel.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.