Pteris vittata

Tags: Fern.

Pteris vittata commonly known variously as the Chinese brake Chinese ladder brake or simply ladder brake is a fern species in the Pteridoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. It is indigenous to Asia tropical Africa and Australia. The type specimen was collected in China by Pehr Osbeck.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Leptosporangiate fern

division

Pteridophyte

family

Pteridoideae, Pteridaceae

genus

Pteris

kingdom

Plant

order

Polypodiales

synonym

*P. diversifolia (Sw.), *P. ensifolia (Poir.), *P. inaequilateralis (Poir.), *P. longifolia (Wall.), *P. microdonata (Gaudin), *Pteris costata (Bory), *Pycnodoria vittata (L.) Small), *P. vittata (fo.) cristata (Ching in Ching & S.H.Wu)