Tectaria dissecta(G.Forst.) Lellinger

cutleaf halberd fern

WFO wfo-0001116070 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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 dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. a 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-14 / obs. 163446258
Tectaria dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163446259
Tectaria dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163446163
Tectaria dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163446265
Tectaria dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163446282
Tectaria dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163446288
Tectaria dissecta, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163446340

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Tectaria dissecta is native: Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Borneo, Christmas I., Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Caroline Is., Cook Is., Fiji, Marianas, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu TaiwanBorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraFiji Nansei-shotoChristmas I.Caroline Is.Cook Is.MarianasNiueSamoaTongaVanuatu
Native distribution of Tectaria dissecta, 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
Christmas I. XMS
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Cook Is. COO
Fiji FIJ
Marianas MRN
Niue NUE
Samoa SAM
Tonga TON
Vanuatu VAN
Nansei-shoto NNS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI

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 attenuatum Sw.
  • Aspidium dissectum (G.Forst.) Christ
  • Aspidium membranaceum Fée
  • Aspidium membranifolium (Pr.) Kunze
  • Ctenitis angustodissecta (Hayata) H.Itô
  • Ctenitis dissecta (G.Forst.) H.Itô
  • Ctenitis minima Brownlie
  • Ctenitis sasakii (Hayata) Ching
  • Ctenitis tenuifrons Ching
  • Ctenitopsis angustodissecta (Hayata) Ching
  • Ctenitopsis dissecta (G.Forst.) Ching
  • Ctenitopsis membranifolia (C.Presl) Ching
  • Ctenitopsis sasakii (Hayata) Ching & Chu H.Wang
  • Dryopteris angustodissecta Hayata
  • Dryopteris dissecta (G.Forst.) Kuntze
  • Dryopteris sasakii Hayata
  • Dryopteris tenuifrons Hayata
  • Lastrea dissecta (Atk. ex C.B.Clarke) Kuntze
  • Lastrea dissecta (G.Forst.) Carruth.
  • Lastrea dissecta (G.Forst.) Bedd.
  • Lastrea gardneriana T.Moore
  • Lastrea membranifolia (C.Presl) Bedd.
  • Lastrea membranifolia (C.Presl) C.Presl
  • Nephrodium dissectum (G.Forst.) Desv.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol TEDI2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.