Native records: 1 botanical areas
Nansei-shoto
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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Native to Japan.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account and images are not yet available.
Distribution areas
Japan
- Nansei-shotoNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Cfa Temperate, no dry season, hot summer
- Af Tropical, rainforest
The same climate occurs in 72 areas worldwide, 71 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
- Family
- Polypodiaceae
- Genus
- Nephrolepis
Other species in Nephrolepis
- Nephrolepis exaltataBoston fern
- Nephrolepis falcataFishtail Swordfern
- Nephrolepis falciformis
- Nephrolepis flexuosathermal ladder fern
- Nephrolepis grayumiana
- Nephrolepis hirsutulaAsian sword fern
- Nephrolepis lauterbachii
- Nephrolepis obliterataAustralian sword fern
- Nephrolepis obtusiloba
- Nephrolepis occidentalis
- Nephrolepis pectinatabasket fern
- Nephrolepis pendula
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Japan · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
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