Selliguea engleri(Luerss.) Fraser-Jenk.

WFO wfo-0001035970 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-21 / obs. 170308268
Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129384637
Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135942025
Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129384787
Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128598782
Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135942000
Selliguea engleri, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128598669
Selliguea engleri, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102131132

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2258414
Filed as
Selliguea engleri (Luerss.) Fraser-Jenk.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
K. Iwatsuki 1954-08-16
Origin
JP
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Selliguea engleri is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar China South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaMyanmar Korea
Native distribution of Selliguea engleri, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA

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 16 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.

  • Crypsinus engleri (Luerss.Engl.) Copel.
  • Crypsinus engleri var. coriaceus (Tagawa) Tagawa
  • Phymatodes engleri (Luerss.) Ching
  • Phymatodes engleri var. coriacea Tagawa
  • Phymatopsis engleri (Luerss.Engl.) H.Ito
  • Phymatopsis engleri var. coriacea (Tagawa) Ching
  • Phymatopsis engleri var. hypoleuca (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Phymatopsis pellucidifolia (Hayata) H.Ito
  • Phymatopteris engleri (Luerssen) Pic.Serm.
  • Phymatopteris pellucidifolia (Hayata) Pic.Serm.
  • Polypodium engleri Luerss.
  • Polypodium engleri var. hypoleucum Hayata
  • Polypodium hastatum var. engleri (Luerss.) Christ
  • Polypodium pellucidifolium Hayata
  • Selliguea engleri (Luerss.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
  • Selliguea pellucidifolia (Hayata) S.G.Lu, Hovenkamp & M.G.Gilbert

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.