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Lepisorus longifolius (Blume) Holttum

Polypodiaceae · Cambodia, Myanmar +8 · listed by its family as a fern or moss

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
20.3°C
Record low 17.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Apr, May and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
3,453mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
28–36DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Cultivation

Grouped as a fern or moss, listed under the family Polypodiaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,532 mm of 3,415 mm) takes 8 months, August to January and April to May. Mean temperature moves 1.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

3,415 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,532 mm of it August to January and April to May. Wettest months (2 at 390 mm), driest month March at 207 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,597 mm to 4,566 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,453 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,415 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 20.3 °C, the absolute minimum 17.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.6 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.5 °C in February (across the grid cells of the range 19.2 °C to 23.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.7 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 20.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 67 to 71% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

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.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -265 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Group. Listed under the family Polypodiaceae 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

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Lepisorus longifolius through the yearWarmest months April, May and August, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month February, mean nightly low 20.5 °C; 3,415 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.15°20°25°30°35°31.6° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER17.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0200400600800mm rainDLI 28–36RH 67–71%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 13 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 25–2928 / 26–2929 / 27–3030 / 27–3030 / 27–3129 / 27–3129 / 26–3030 / 26–3129 / 26–3129 / 26–3028 / 25–3027 / 25–29
Night °C21 / 19–2321 / 19–2321 / 20–2321 / 20–2422 / 20–2421 / 20–2421 / 19–2321 / 19–2321 / 19–2321 / 20–2321 / 20–2321 / 19–23
Rain mm302 / 123–764217 / 93–558207 / 149–376288 / 136–403256 / 220–346234 / 216–286225 / 207–284252 / 202–301295 / 217–351359 / 223–401390 / 229–487390 / 198–568
DLI29 / 27–3232 / 31–3536 / 33–3736 / 34–3833 / 32–3533 / 31–3534 / 32–3535 / 33–3734 / 31–3632 / 28–3330 / 25–3128 / 25–29
RH %70 / 68–7269 / 67–7168 / 66–7169 / 66–7269 / 68–7269 / 66–7068 / 65–7167 / 65–7069 / 66–7270 / 68–7371 / 70–7471 / 69–73
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 13 grid cells holding the 16 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1719:5896 (4.025, 114.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 17.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 20.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 13 distinct grid cells holding 16 of the 16 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1719:5896 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 4.00_115.000, lapse-corrected -265 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 224 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera · 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 marker4.067, 114.918 · in the densest population, 47 records (47% 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 100 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 16 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 79 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 570 km away. 10 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 84 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 8292852 (Pleopeltis longifolia Blume, 1828): Kew's file holds it as Pleopeltis longifolia Blume (synonym under Lepisorus longifolius (Blume) Holttum); 1 record, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 100 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Alocasia sarawakensis Alocasia sarawakensis Araceae Photo: CC BY, Kai Squires Osmoxylon borneense Araliaceae Etlingera fimbriobracteata Etlingera fimbriobracteata Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Paul PriorPiper porphyrophyllum Piper porphyrophyllum Piperaceae Photo: CC BY, dhfischerCoelogyne swaniana Coelogyne swaniana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Bernard DUPONTKoompassia excelsa Koompassia excelsa Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Tim

Other Lepisorus 13 in the reference

Lepisorus buergerianus Lepisorus buergerianus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KeisotyoLepisorus carnosus Lepisorus carnosus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, 王天Lepisorus ensatus Lepisorus ensatus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Kiwi ShenLepisorus fortuni Lepisorus fortuni Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang Chen Lepisorus macrosphaerus Polypodiaceae Lepisorus microphyllus Lepisorus microphyllus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Donna BelderLepisorus monilisorus Lepisorus monilisorus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang ChenLepisorus mucronatus Lepisorus mucronatus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldLepisorus ovatus Lepisorus ovatus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Lepisorus palmatopedatus Polypodiaceae Lepisorus spicatus Lepisorus spicatus Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, naturewatchwidowLepisorus superficialis Lepisorus superficialis Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu) all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Drynaria revoluta; Grammitis decurrens; Grammitis longifolia; Microsorum longifolium; Niphobolus longifolius and 14 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Polypodiaceae
Described by
(Blume) Holttum
Native to
Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand +7
Wild records
100 in range · 79 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 2026-10-22
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record of GBIF's key 8292852, Pleopeltis longifolia Blume, 1828 (Kew's file holds it as Pleopeltis longifolia Blume (synonym under Lepisorus longifolius (Blume) Holttum)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 4.00_115.000, lapse-corrected -265 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 17402220-1 is Kew's for Lepisorus longifolius (Blume) Holttum
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Lepisorus longifolius to Paragramma
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 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 28 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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