- Family:
- Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.
- Genus:
- Pteris L.
- Species:
- Pteris vittata L.
Pteris vittata subsp. vittata

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, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, 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.
- Aspidium humile Willd.
- Polypodium trapezoides Burm.f.
- Pteris acuminatissima Blume
- Pteris alpinii Desv.
- Pteris amplectens Wall.
- Pteris amplexicaulis Roxb.
- Pteris aspera Fée
- Pteris costata Bory ex Willd.
- Pteris diversifolia Sw.
- Pteris ensifolia Poir.
- Pteris guichenotiana Gaudich.
- Pteris guichenotii Decne.
- Pteris inaequilateralis Poir.
- Pteris indica Poir.
- Pteris lanceolata Desf.
- Pteris linearis Roxb.
- Pteris longifolia var. brevipinna Domin
- Pteris microdonta Gaudich.
- Pteris obliqua Forssk.
- Pteris ophioderma Fée
- Pteris semihirta Link
- Pteris tenuifolia Brack.
- Pteris vittata subsp. bengalensis Fraser-Jenk.
- Pteris vittata f. cristata Ching
- Pteris vulcanica Bertol.
Pteris vittata subsp. vittata appears in other Kew resources:
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 |
Accepted by
- 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.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- 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.
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