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Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh.

Pteridaceae · Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf +16 · listed by its family as a fern or moss

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Grouped as a fern or moss, listed under the family Pteridaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “rhizomatous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

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 family Pteridaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “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.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5614476 (Pteris ovata Desv., 0 records), 9794355 (Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh., 2 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeMexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil Southeast, Argentina Northwest · 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).
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5614476 (Pteris ovata Desv.): Kew's file holds it as Pteris ovata Desv. (synonym under Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 9794355 (Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh.): Kew's file holds it as Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh. (accepted); 2 records, from GBIF's download.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Hemionitis 74 in the reference

Hemionitis acrostica Hemionitis acrostica Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Hemionitis alabamensis Pteridaceae Hemionitis arifolia Pteridaceae Hemionitis aspera Pteridaceae Hemionitis atropurpurea Pteridaceae Hemionitis bonariensis Pteridaceae Hemionitis bradburyi Pteridaceae Hemionitis breweri Pteridaceae Hemionitis bridgesii Pteridaceae Hemionitis calidirupium Pteridaceae Hemionitis californica Pteridaceae Hemionitis calomelanos Pteridaceae all 75 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Allosorus flexuosus; Pellaea flexuosa; Pellaea cordata var. flexuosa; Platyloma flexuosum; Pteris flexuosa and 2 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Pteridaceae
Described by
(Desv.) Christenh.
Native to
Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest +15
Wild records
1 in range · 1 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 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh. (plant_name_id 3218730), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 5614476, Pteris ovata Desv. (Kew's file holds it as Pteris ovata Desv. (synonym under Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 2 records of GBIF's key 9794355, Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh. (Kew's file holds it as Hemionitis ovata (Desv.) Christenh. (accepted)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 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 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77183106-1, POWO 77183106-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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