Amateur fern aficionado Wang Bizhao discovered Adiantum meishanianum in Meishan Village in Kaohsiung County's Taoyuan Township in 1983, but it was not until March 2008 that it was confirmed to be a new species in a paper by Taiwan Forestry Research Institute researcher Chiou Wen-liang.
早在 1983 年就被民間蕨類愛好者王必昭在高雄縣桃源鄉梅山村發現的梅山鐵線蕨，直到 2008 年 3 月才由農委會林試所研究員邱文良等人發表論文，確定為世界新種。