Slender Bracken
Pteris ensiformis Burm.f.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Pteridaceae
Also called Slender Brake, Slender brake
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 箭葉鳳尾蕨, 劍葉鳳尾蕨, 井边茜
- Chinese (China)
- 剑叶凤尾蕨
- Japanese
- ホコシダ
- Russian
- Птерис мечевидный
- Polish
- orliczka mieczowata
- Thai
- เฟิร์นราชินี
- root
- Samambaia-prata
- Slovak
- krídelnica mečovitá
- French
- Ptéris à feuilles fines
- Simplified Chinese
- 井边茜, 剑叶凤尾蕨
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- 3D model: Pteris ensiformis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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