Chinese Brake
Pteris vittata
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Found in India
- Kerala, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh & more
How to identify Chinese Brake
Identify Chinese Brake by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb-terrestrial habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Common weedy fern on old walls, tolerates arsenic-contaminated soil (Chinese brake).
- Confirm leaf type: Once-divided (pinnate).
- Confirm leaf surface: Plain green underside.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Pteridaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Chinese Brake.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Pteris vittata
- Genus
- Pteris
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Native to
- India, China
- Found in India
- Kerala, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Meghalaya, Assam, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Jharkhand, Sikkim
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Once-divided (pinnate)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Plain green undersiderecorded
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chinese Brake itself; the rest are typical of the Pteridaceae family.
Local Names
- Bengali
- টেরিস ভিট্টাটা
- Tamil
- பெரணி
- Malayalam
- പെറ്ററിസ് വിറ്റാറ്റ
About Chinese Brake
Chinese Brake (Pteris vittata) belongs to the Pteridaceae family, where it grows as a ground herb. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and 22 other states.
Pteridaceae
Maidenhair Fern Family
Chinese Brake belongs to the Pteridaceae family.
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