Pteridium esculentum

Pteridium esculentum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Familia: Dennstaedtiaceae
Genus: Pteridium
Species: Pteridium esculentum

Name

• Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne, 1908

Synonyms

• Allosorus esculentus (G. Forst.) C. Presl
• Cincinalis esculenta (G. Forst.) Trevis.
• Ornithopteris esculenta (G. Forst.) J. Sm.
• Pteridium aquilinum var. aequipinnulum Domin
• Pteridium aquilinum subsp. esculentum (G. Forst.) C. Chr.
• Pteridium aquilinum var. esculentum (G. Forst.) Kuhn
• Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum Domin
• Pteridium esculentum (G. Forst.) Cockayne
• Pteridium pseudocaudatum (Clute) Christenh.
• Pteris aquilina f. esculenta (G. Forst.) Christ
• Pteris aquilina var. esculenta (G. Forst.) Hook. fil.
• Pteris esculenta G. Forst.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Australasia Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania), New Zealand (North Isl., South Isl., Stewart Isl., Three Kings Isl.), Kermadec Isl. Chatham Isl. Continental: Pacific New Caledonia, Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu), Tonga (Late Isl., Tofua), Vanuatu, China (Guangxi, Hainan), Antipodes Isl., Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu, etc.), Society Isl. (Tahiti), Norfolk Isl., Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, Moluccas, New Guinea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Lesser Sunda Isl. (Lombok, Bali, Wetar, Flores, Timor, Alor, Sumba), Solomon Isl. (Santa Ysabel), peninsular Malaysia, Singapore References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Cockayne, L.C., 1908. Report of the Botanical Survey of Tongariro National Park 34.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2020. Pteridium esculentum – World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World . In: Roskov Y., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J. & Penev L. (eds.) 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Mar 03.
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Pteridium esculentum. Published online. Accessed: Mar 03 2020.
• Tropicos.org 2020. Pteridium esculentum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 03 Mar 2020.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Pteridium esculentum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Vernacular names

English: bracken fern, Austral bracken

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