Pteridaceae
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition
Pteris tripartita
Pteris tripartita Sw.
Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/72936
Giant Lacy Brake
Large terrestrial ferns. Rhizome short, erect, stout; scales small, triangular, pale brown. Fronds monomorphic. Stipe erect, often 50–150 cm long, stramineous to greenish, robust, grooved, with scattered basal scales. Lamina ±round, broadly triangular or pentagonal, to c. 1.7 m across, herbaceous to chartaceous, glabrous, divided into 3 or more subsimilar radiating 1-pinnate-pinnatifid elements; central element largest. Pinnae to 15 cm long, deeply pinnatifid, shortly stalked; lobes slightly falcate, to c. 35 mm long, to c. 5 mm wide, serrulate (especially the sterile ones), separated by rounded sinuses; veinlets forming elongate areolae along the midvein. Sori broken at lobe apices and sinuses; indusium entire; paraphyses abundant.
Occurs from
Terrestrial in tropical closed forests.
Readily cultivated in the ground or a container in a tropical or subtropical garden or fernhouse.
Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/intro/index.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).
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