Dryopteris wallichiana
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Dryopteris wallichiana

Wallich's wood fern

Indigenous (native)native

Native to Hawaiʻi and arrived without human help.

Dryopteris wallichiana, the alpine wood fern, is a robust species of deciduous or semi-evergreen fern in the family Dryopteridaceae, native to the Himalayas, Hawaii, Mexico and Jamaica. It grows to 90 cm (35 in) tall, occasionally 180 cm (71 in) by 75 cm (30 in) wide, with pale green tripinnate fronds, strongly contrasting with the dark brown ribs.

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Seasonality

Only 0 phenology-annotated observations exist for this species in Hawaiʻi — too few to describe a season. No window is inferred.

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Where documented · 43 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 200 · GBIF 298 records