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Pteris quadriaurita Retz.

Pteridaceae · Bangladesh, India +1 · listed by its genus as a fern or moss

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About the genus · Pteris

Pteris (brake) is a genus of about 300 species of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. They are native to tropical and subtropical regions, southward to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, north to Japan and North America. 78 species are found in China. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pteris", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Grouped as a fern or moss, listed under the genus Pteris in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “rhizomatous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Pteris in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “rhizomatous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 21 of the 23 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBangladesh, India, Sri Lanka · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker10.9, 76.85 · in the densest population, 12 records (52% of those in range)
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 23 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 20 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1136 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 21 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 23 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Jonatan Castro Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Pteris 33 in the reference

Pteris altissima Pteris altissima Tall brake Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitrePteris argyraea Pteris argyraea Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Pranav Chandra BosePteris arisanensis Pteris arisanensis Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿 Pteris aspericaulis Pteridaceae Pteris bahamensis Pteris bahamensis Bahama brake Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldPteris biaurita Pteris biaurita Thinleaf brake Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿Pteris blumeana Pteris blumeana Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Eric KnightPteris cretica Pteris cretica Ribbon fern Photo: CC BY, jamie-aaPteris dactylina Pteris dactylina Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang ChenPteris dentata Pteris dentata Toothed Brake Photo: CC BY, Jeremy GilmorePteris dispar Pteris dispar Unequal-lobe brake fern Photo: CC0, author not statedPteris ensiformis Pteris ensiformis Slender brake Photo: CC BY, Kalvin Chan all 34 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Campteria galeottii; Litobrochia galeottii; Pteris attenuata; Pteris biaurita var. quadriaurita; Pteris biaurita var. repandula and 26 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Pteris plumieri: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

Under another author Pteris biaurita Tardieu is an older name of this species, not Pteris biaurita, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Pteridaceae
Described by
Retz.
Native to
Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
Wild records
23 in range · 20 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 34 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (31 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 17215900-1 is Kew's for Pteris quadriaurita Retz.
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 117 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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