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|accepted_name=Pteris multifida
|accepted_authority=Poiret in Lamarck et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Lamarck et al.,Encycl.
|place=5: 714. 1804
|year=1804
}}
|common_names=Spider brake;spider fern;Chinese brake;Huguenot fern;saw-leaved bracken
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pycnodoria multifida
|authority=(Poiret) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Pteris;Pteris multifida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pteris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pteris multifida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 134
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>slender, short-creeping, densely scaly; scales dark reddish brown to chestnut brown. <b>Leaves</b> clustered, 1–6 dm. <b>Petiole</b> pale or brownish, 5–30 cm, scaly proximally, otherwise glabrous. <b>Blade</b> oblong to oblanceolate, irregularly and pedately divided proximally (as in <i>Pteris cretica</i>) and pinnately divided distally, 10–35 × 13–25 cm; rachis slightly and evenly winged, wing constricted above each pinna pair. <b>Pinnae</b> 3–7 pairs, widely spaced, distal pinnae simple, adnate and decurrent to rachis; pinnae remaining green through winter, not articulate to rachis, lanceolate to linear; sterile pinnae wider than fertile pinnae (to ca. 1.2 cm), margins irregularly serrate to serrulate; fertile pinnae mostly less than 5 mm, margins entire to serrate at apex; adaxial costae with sparse, septate hairs; proximal pinnae with 1–4 elongate basal segments. <b>Veins</b> free, simple or forked. <b>Sori</b> narrow, blade tissue exposed abaxially. <b>2n</b> = 116.</span><!--

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|habitat=Terrestrial or on rock in disturbed areas in circumneutral soils; primarily coastal plain.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies;South America in Argentina;Brazil;native to Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Pteris multifida</i> is found on old shady walls and masonry around cemeteries, dumps, and towns. It may no longer occur in Indiana. Juveniles of <i>Pteris multifida</i> may key to <i>Pteris cretica</i>.</p>
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name=Pteris multifida
|author=
|authority=Poiret in Lamarck et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pycnodoria multifida
|basionyms=
|family=Pteridaceae
|habitat=Terrestrial or on rock in disturbed areas in circumneutral soils; primarily coastal plain.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies;South America in Argentina;Brazil;native to Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in Lamarck et al.,Encycl.
|publication year=1804
|special status=
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|genus=Pteris
|species=Pteris multifida
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