Vandenboschia speciosa(Willd.) G.Kunkel

WFO wfo-0000146720 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. a Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-04-04 / obs. 182737087
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Ina Siebert
fig. b Ina Siebert, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60308222
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. c Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102211308
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Vítor Jorge
fig. d Vítor Jorge, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205534376
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. e Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102211295
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Vítor Jorge
fig. f Vítor Jorge, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205457645
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Vítor Jorge
fig. g Vítor Jorge, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205537856
Vandenboschia speciosa, photographed by Christina s.l.
fig. h Christina s.l., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186006971

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Vandenboschia speciosa is native: Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Belgium, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain BelgiumCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyIrelandItalyPolandPortugalSpain AzoresCanary Is.Madeira
Native distribution of Vandenboschia speciosa, 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
Belgium BGM EUROPE
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Azores AZO AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Madeira MDR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. 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 10 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.

  • Didymoglossum alatum (Sm.) Desv.
  • Hymenophyllum alatum Sm.
  • Trichomanes alatum (Sm.) Hook.
  • Trichomanes andrewsii Newman
  • Trichomanes brevisetum R.Br.
  • Trichomanes europaeum Sm.
  • Trichomanes hibernicum Spreng.
  • Trichomanes radicans var. andrewsii Bab.
  • Trichomanes radicans var. speciosum (Willd.) Hook.f.
  • Trichomanes speciosum Willd.

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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