Reholttumia truncata(Poir.) S.E.Fawc. & A.R.Sm.

WFO wfo-1000028750 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Reholttumia truncata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-27 / obs. 87420262
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187270834
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163451157
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by owl
fig. d owl, CC0 1.0 / obs. 68708260
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59102177
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. f Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35847088
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by Chen Jia Hong
fig. g Chen Jia Hong, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23522906
Reholttumia truncata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32073753

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000451758
Filed as
Pneumatopteris truncata (Poir.) Holttum
Det. by
Edwards, P.J.
Collected
Comber, H.F. 1965-01-01
Origin
MY
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Reholttumia truncata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Bangladesh, Borneo, Christmas I., India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, New Caledonia China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetBangladeshBorneoIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNew Caledonia Nansei-shotoChristmas I.
Native distribution of Reholttumia truncata, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Christmas I. XMS
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
New Caledonia NWC 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 423 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.5 °C 12.0 °C 18.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.2 °C 28.9 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 2,370 mm 3,479 mm 4,671 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 107 mm 198 mm 784 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 423 research-grade observations of Reholttumia truncata 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 38 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.

  • Aspidium abortivum Blume
  • Aspidium abruptum Blume
  • Aspidium eusorum Thwaites
  • Aspidium multilineatum Wall.
  • Aspidium truncatum (Poir.) Gaudich.
  • Aspidium truncatum (Poir.) Mett.
  • Cyclosorus abortivus (Blume) Ching
  • Cyclosorus lepidopodus C.Chr.
  • Cyclosorus pustulifer Ching
  • Cyclosorus sublaevifrons Tagawa
  • Cyclosorus truncatus (Poir.) Tardieu
  • Cyclosorus truncatus (Poir.) Farw.
  • Cyclosorus truncatus f. kwashotensis (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Cyclosorus truncatus f. laevifrons (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Cyclosorus truncatus var. acutilobus Ching
  • Dryopteris abortiva (Blume) Kuntze
  • Dryopteris batacorum var. winkleri Rosenst.
  • Dryopteris kwashotensis Hayata
  • Dryopteris laevifrons Hayata
  • Dryopteris laevifrons var. kwashotensis (Hayata) Tagawa
  • Dryopteris sublaevifrons Tagawa
  • Dryopteris truncata (Poir.) Kuntze
  • Nephrodium abortivum (Blume) J.Sm.
  • Nephrodium abruptum (Blume) J.Sm.

and 14 more.

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.