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Microsorum pappei (Mett.) Tardieu

Polypodiaceae · Tanzania, Malawi +5

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About the genus · Microsorum

Microsorum is a genus of tropical ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Microsoroideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Like most ferns, they grow from rhizomes, rather than roots. The genus includes some species that are lithophytic rheophytes.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

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. 29 of the 30 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.
NativeTanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, Comoros, Madagascar · 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-14.173, 49.306 · in the densest population, 12 records (40% of those in range)
Kew's description“seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 30 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 29 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 30 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: Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Microsorum 8 in the reference

Microsorum grossum Microsorum grossum Musk fern Photo: CC BY, Samuel Brown Microsorum insigne Polypodiaceae Microsorum musifolium Microsorum musifolium Crocodile fern Photo: CC BY, Forest & Kim StarrMicrosorum punctatum Microsorum punctatum Climbing bird's nest fern Photo: CC0, author not statedMicrosorum scolopendria Microsorum scolopendria Monarch fern Photo: CC0, author not statedMicrosorum spectrum Microsorum spectrum Triploid fern Photo: CC0, author not statedMicrosorum steerei Microsorum steerei Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY, Jacy ChenMicrosorum thailandicum Microsorum thailandicum Polypodiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz

Names & registers

Also known as Neocheiropteris pappei; Neolepisorus pappei; Polypodium normale; Polypodium normale var. madagascariensis; Polypodium pappei. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Polypodiaceae
Described by
(Mett.) Tardieu
Native to
Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique +4
Wild records
30 in range · 30 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 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 nothing to reportasked 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 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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