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Adiantum × meishanianum; photograph (c) Jacy Chen, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Jacy Chen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2020-11-09

Adiantum × meishanianum F.S.Hsu ex Yea C.Liu & W.L.Chiou

Pteridaceae · Taiwan · listed by its genus as a fern or moss

A hybrid: A. malesianum × A. menglianense, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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About the genus · Adiantum

Adiantum, the maidenhair fern, is a genus of about 250 species of ferns in the subfamily Vittarioideae of the family Pteridaceae, though some researchers place it in its own family, Adiantaceae. The genus name comes from Greek, meaning "unwetted", referring to the fronds' ability to shed water without becoming wet.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Adiantum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Grouped as a fern or moss, listed under the genus Adiantum in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Adiantum in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 14 of the 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTaiwan · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker23.363, 120.828 · in the densest population, 15 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 7 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Jacy Chen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Adiantum 42 in the reference

Adiantum aethiopicum Adiantum aethiopicum Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Ian RainbowAdiantum aleuticum Adiantum aleuticum Aleutian maidenhair fern Photo: CC BY, John BrewAdiantum amplum Adiantum amplum Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezAdiantum anceps Adiantum anceps Double edge maidenhair Photo: CC0, author not statedAdiantum andicola Adiantum andicola Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Cruzado CortésAdiantum atroviride Adiantum atroviride Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyAdiantum capillus-veneris Adiantum capillus-veneris Maidenhair fern Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaAdiantum caudatum Adiantum caudatum Tailed maidenhair Photo: CC BY, 林正文Adiantum chilense Adiantum chilense Chilean Maidenhair Fern Photo: CC0, author not statedAdiantum concinnum Adiantum concinnum Polished maidenhair Photo: CC BY, Carlos Domínguez-RodríguezAdiantum cunninghamii Adiantum cunninghamii Cunningham's maidenhair Photo: CC BY, Hannah Rogers Adiantum curvatum Pteridaceae all 43 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Pteridaceae
Described by
F.S.Hsu ex Yea C.Liu & W.L.Chiou
Native to
Taiwan
Wild records
15 in range · 7 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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