Leathery shieldfern
Rumohra adiantiformis (G.Forst.) Ching
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 91 cm
Polypodiaceae
Also called Iron fern, 7-Weeks-fern, Climbing shield fern, Leathery shield-fern, Knysna Fern
Formerly Aspidium adiantiforme, Aspidium calyptratum, Aspidium capense, Aspidium clypeolarium, and 37 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or epiphyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. America, Subantarctic Is., Zimbabwe to S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, New Guinea, E. & SE. Australia, New ZealandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Boething Treeland, one source
- Height
- 91 cmRead from Wikipedia and Boething Treeland, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 90–90 cm; Boething Treeland 3–3 ft
- Spread
- 91 cmRead from Wikipedia and Boething Treeland, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 90–90 cm; Boething Treeland 3–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Boething Treeland, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Spanish
- Calaguala
- Chinese (China)
- 丽莎蕨, 革叶蕨
- Afrikaans
- Knysnavaring, seweweeksvaring
- Japanese
- レザーファン
- French
- Fougère à feuilles de cuir
- Portuguese
- Samambaia-preta
- Dutch
- Ruhmora, Ledervaren
- root
- Püreg
- Chinese
- 汝蕨, 革叶蕨
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Boething Treeland, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Rumohra adiantiformis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.