Pteris vittata subsp. vittata
Distribution
Native to:
Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cyprus, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Free State, Ghana, Greece, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Santa Cruz Is., Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Vanuatu, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belgium, California, Caroline Is., Colombia, District of Columbia, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Great Britain, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Marianas, Mexico Northeast, Mississippi, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Aspidium humile Willd. in Sp. Pl. ed. 4. 5: 220 (1810)
- Polypodium trapezoides Burm.f. in Fl. Ind.: 233 (1768)
- Pteris acuminatissima Blume in Enum. Pl. Javae 2: 208 (1828)
- Pteris alpinii Desv. in Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 295 (1827)
- Pteris amplectens Wall. in Numer. List: n.° 112 (1829)
- Pteris amplexicaulis Roxb. in Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 4: 505 (1844)
- Pteris aspera Fée in Mém. Foug., 5. Gen. Filic.: 126 (1852)
- Pteris costata Bory ex Willd. in Sp. Pl. ed. 4. 5: 367 (1810)
- Pteris diversifolia Sw. in Syn. Fil. (Kiliae): 96, 288 (1806)
- Pteris ensifolia Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 711 (1804)
- Pteris guichenotiana Gaudich. in Voy. Uranie: 387 (1829)
- Pteris guichenotii Decne. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 3: 348 (1834)
- Pteris inaequilateralis Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 4: 601 (1816)
- Pteris indica Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 712 (1804)
- Pteris lanceolata Desf. in Fl. Atlant. 2: 401 (1799), nom. illeg.
- Pteris linearis Roxb. in Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 4: 505 (1844), nom. illeg.
- Pteris longifolia var. brevipinna Domin in Biblioth. Bot. 20: 154 (1913)
- Pteris microdonta Gaudich. in Voy. Uranie: 387 (1829)
- Pteris obliqua Forssk. in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 185 (1775)
- Pteris ophioderma Fée in Mém. Foug., 10. Ic. Esp. Nouv.: 15 (1865)
- Pteris semihirta Link in Fil. Spec.: 50 (1841)
- Pteris tenuifolia Brack. in U.S. Expl. Exped., Filic. 16: 112 (1854), nom. illeg.
- Pteris vittata subsp. bengalensis Fraser-Jenk. in New Sp. Syndr. Indian Pteridol.: 231 (1997)
- Pteris vittata f. cristata Ching in Acta Bot. Austro Sin. 1: 6 (1983)
- Pteris vulcanica Bertol. in Misc. Bot. 18: 21 (1857)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2017). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 1: 1-562. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
- Prelli, R. & Boudrie, M. (2021). Les Fougères et plantes alliées d'Europe: 1-528. BIOTOPE.
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Chen, C.-W. & al. (2022). An annotated checklist of lycophytes and ferns of the Solomon islands. The Fern Gazette 21: 292-419.
- Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
- Reyes-Chávez, J., Tarvin, S. & Batke, S.P. (2021). Ferns and Lycophytes of Honduras: A new annotated checklist. Phytotaxa 506: 1-113.
- Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
- Verloove, F. (2019). Manual of the Alien Plants of Belgium http://alienplantsbelgium.be.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 112], Myanmar | Pteris amplectens | K001109304 | Yes | ||
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 112], Myanmar | Pteris amplectens | K001109300 | Yes | ||
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 112], Myanmar | Pteris amplectens | K001109301 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 112] | Pteris amplectens | K001109302 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 112] | Pteris amplectens | K001109303 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images