Tectaria crenataCav.

WFO wfo-0001127395 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Tectaria crenata, photographed by Tigran Tadevosyan
fig. a Tigran Tadevosyan, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-01-18 / obs. 1578023
Tectaria crenata, photographed by Tigran Tadevosyan
fig. b Tigran Tadevosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1578024
Tectaria crenata, photographed by Tigran Tadevosyan
fig. c Tigran Tadevosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1578025

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Tectaria crenata is native: Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Caroline Is., Fiji, Marianas, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. BorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandFiji Caroline Is.MarianasSamoaVanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Tectaria crenata, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ
Marianas MRN
Samoa SAM
Santa Cruz Is. SCZ
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL

Not drawn on the map: Santa Cruz Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 31 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 cordulatum Rosenst.
  • Aspidium crenatum (Cav.) Ching
  • Aspidium crenatus (Cav.) Ching
  • Aspidium grande J.Sm.
  • Aspidium grandifolium C.Presl
  • Aspidium haenkei C.Presl
  • Aspidium heptaphyllum (Baker) C.Chr.
  • Aspidium kawakamii Alderw.
  • Aspidium macrophyllum Blume
  • Aspidium macrophyllum var. decurrens Kunze
  • Aspidium pachyphyllum Kunze
  • Aspidium siifolium Blume
  • Aspidium tectaria Desv.
  • Aspidium trifoliatum Decne.
  • Cardiochlaena laevis Fée
  • Cardiochlaena sinuosa Fée
  • Dryopteris pachyphylla (T.Moore) Kuntze
  • Dryopteris pachyphylla (Kunze) Kuntze
  • Nephrodium grande Baker
  • Nephrodium heptaphyllum Baker
  • Nephrodium pachyphyllum (Kunze) Baker
  • Sagenia crenata (Cav.) Hosok.
  • Sagenia grandifolia (Presl) Hosok.
  • Sagenia grandis T.Moore

and 7 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.