Todea barbara(L.) T.Moore

WFO wfo-0001110737 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Todea barbara, photographed by Di Turner
fig. a Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 194982165
Todea barbara, photographed by Di Turner
fig. b Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194982470
Todea barbara, photographed by Di Turner
fig. c Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195038790
Todea barbara, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197090575
Todea barbara, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197077677
Todea barbara, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189631937
Todea barbara, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187354221
Todea barbara, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186053000

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Todea barbara is native: Cape Provinces, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Zimbabwe, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria Cape ProvincesEswatiniKwaZulu-NatalMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesZimbabweNew South WalesNew Zealand NorthQueenslandSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoria
Native distribution of Todea barbara, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
Eswatini SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Zimbabwe ZIM
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand North NZN
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC

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 11 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.

  • Acrostichum barbarum L.
  • Osmunda barbara (L.) Thunb.
  • Osmunda totta Sw.
  • Todea africana Willd.
  • Todea africana var. lithophylla F.Muell.
  • Todea antarctica Andre
  • Todea antarctica var. australis Andre
  • Todea arborea Anon.
  • Todea barbara subsp. rivularis (Kunze) Bonap.
  • Todea barbara var. lithophylla (F.Muell.) Luerss.
  • Todea rivularis Kunze

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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