Taxon: Pteris vittata L.

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Common names:

• Chinese brake   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Chinese ladder brake   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• ladder brake   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F)
  
• Environmental: pollution control   (for arsenic accumulation fide J Environ Qual 31:1671-1675. 2002)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; Yemen - Socotra
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania [incl. Pemba, Zanzibar]; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  China: China - Anhui, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Northern Mariana Islands

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary
  Southwestern Europe: France
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia; Palau
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina

• also cultivated

References:

• Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gibbs Russell, G. E. et al. 1985. List of species of Southern African plants, ed. 2. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa v. 51.; v. 56. 1987
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• León, B. et al. 2012. Los helechos ornamentales en el Perú (The ornamental ferns of Peru).
• Mickel, J. T. & A. R. Smith. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88:1-1054.
• Mickel, J. T. 1994. Ferns for American gardens.
• Nayar, B. K. & K. K. Geevarghese. 1993. Fern flora of Malabar.
• Proctor, G. R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53:1-389.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Tryon, R. M. & R. G. Stolze. 1989. Part II. (13. Pteridaceae - 15. Dennstaedtiaceae). P. 22:81 in: Tryon, R. M. & R. G. Stolze, eds., Pteridophyta of Peru. Fieldiana, Botany new ser.
• Tu, C. et al. 2002. Arsenic accumulation in the hyperaccumulator Chinese brake and its utilization potential for phytoremediation. J. Environm. Qual. 31:1671–1675.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pteris vittata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pteris vittata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pteris vittata.

Check other web resources for Pteris vittata L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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