Tapeinidium moorei(Hook.) Hieron.

WFO wfo-0000141480 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Tapeinidium moorei, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. a naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-10-13 / obs. 53954280
Tapeinidium moorei, photographed by Ryan McMinds
fig. b Ryan McMinds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11236007
Tapeinidium moorei, photographed by naturewatchwidow
fig. c naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53954288

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Tapeinidium moorei is native: Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu FijiNew Caledonia Vanuatu
Native distribution of Tapeinidium moorei, 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
Fiji FIJ PACIFIC
New Caledonia NWC
Vanuatu VAN

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.

  • Davallia lenormandii Baker
  • Davallia moorei Hook.
  • Lindsaea balansae E.Fourn.
  • Lindsaea campylophylla E.Fourn.
  • Lindsaea exilis E.Fourn.
  • Lindsaea flavicans Mett.
  • Lindsaea mariae E.Fourn.
  • Lindsaea mediocris E.Fourn.
  • Lindsaea moorei E.Fourn.
  • Lindsaea pancheri E.Fourn.
  • Odontosoria lenormandii (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Odontosoria moorei Kuhn
  • Sphenomeris campylophylla (Fourn.) Tardieu
  • Sphenomeris moorei Copel.
  • Tapeinidium balansae (E.Fourn.) Chr.
  • Tapeinidium flavicans (Fourn.) Hieron.

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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