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Nephrolepis falciformis J.Sm.

Nephrolepidaceae · China South-Central, Sri Lanka +12 · listed by its genus as a fern or moss

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Nephrolepis

Nephrolepis is a genus of about 30 species of ferns. It is the only genus in the family Nephrolepidaceae, placed in the suborder Aspleniineae of the order Polypodiales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016. Species in this genus include plants commonly referred to as Boston ferns. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a fern or moss, listed under the genus Nephrolepis 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 Nephrolepis 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: 74 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 74 of the 74 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.
NativeChina South-Central, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, New Guinea · introduced: India, Hawaii, Florida, Honduras · 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 marker4.5, 115.133 · in the densest population, 27 records (36% 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 74 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 73 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 74 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 74 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.

Other Nephrolepis 13 in the reference

Nephrolepis acutifolia Nephrolepis acutifolia Fishbone Fern Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldNephrolepis biserrata Nephrolepis biserrata Nephrolepidaceae Photo: CC BY, Luis Carlos12Nephrolepis brownii Nephrolepis brownii Asian Sword Fern Photo: CC BY, nick_goldwaterNephrolepis cordifolia Nephrolepis cordifolia Narrow sword fern Photo: CC BY, Saryu Mae 前 朝琉Nephrolepis exaltata Nephrolepis exaltata Sword fern Photo: CC BY, The Great WalterNephrolepis falcata Nephrolepis falcata Fishtail swordfern Photo: CC0, author not statedNephrolepis flexuosa Nephrolepis flexuosa Thermal ladder fern Photo: CC BY, Lisa BennettNephrolepis hirsutula Nephrolepis hirsutula Scaly swordfern Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezNephrolepis obliterata Nephrolepis obliterata Australian sword fern Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizNephrolepis pectinata Nephrolepis pectinata Basket fern Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardNephrolepis pendula Nephrolepis pendula Nephrolepidaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Wei CHEN Nephrolepis × pseudobiserrata Nephrolepidaceae all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aspidium flagelliferum; Nephrolepis cordifolia var. calcarea; Nephrolepis thomsonii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Nephrolepidaceae
Described by
J.Sm.
Native to
China South-Central, Sri Lanka, Cambodia +11
Wild records
74 in range · 73 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2274 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
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 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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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