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Lecanopteris mirabilis (C.Chr.) Copel.

Polypodiaceae · Maluku, Sulawesi +1 · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Lecanopteris mirabilis (C.Chr.) Copel.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Copel.

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Summary

Lecanopteris mirabilis is a species of tropical fern in the genus Lecanopteris native to Papua New Guinea and Sulawesi. An epiphyte, its name means "wonderful" or "marvelous". Like others of its genus, it grows from a large rhizome that in this case can be up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) in diameter. This rhizome forms a shelter for ants, making this a myrmecophyte, though unlike others of its genus the rhizome is flattened and doesn't contain hollow galleries. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Lecanopteris mirabilis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Lecanopteris in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”.

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 genus Lecanopteris in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”. 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. 22 of the 23 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.
NativeMaluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea · 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 marker-7.3, 146.233 · in the densest population, 12 records (52% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 23 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 20 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 22 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 23 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: Steven Walling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Lecanopteris 10 in the reference

Lecanopteris carnosa Lecanopteris carnosa Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Isaac KroneLecanopteris celebica Lecanopteris celebica Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanLecanopteris crustacea Lecanopteris crustacea Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)Lecanopteris deparioides Lecanopteris deparioides Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, desertnaturalistLecanopteris linguiformis Lecanopteris linguiformis Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Wei CHEN Lecanopteris lomarioides Polypodiaceae Lecanopteris pumila Lecanopteris pumila Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Brodie Cass TalbottLecanopteris pustulata Lecanopteris pustulata Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Jenny SaitoLecanopteris scandens Lecanopteris scandens Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, J BrewLecanopteris sinuosa Lecanopteris sinuosa Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, 謝麗霦

Names & registers

Also known as Myrmecophila mirabilis; Myrmecophila ulotheca; Myrmecopteris mirabilis; Myrmecopteris ulotheca; Pleopeltis imbricata and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Polypodiaceae
Described by
(C.Chr.) Copel.
Native to
Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea
Wild records
23 in range · 20 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 4026918 is Lecanopteris mirabilis Copel.; the page links Kew's Lecanopteris mirabilis (C.Chr.) Copel., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22only 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 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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