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|accepted_name=Pteris tripartita
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. (Schrader)
|place=1800(2): 67. 1801
|year=1801
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|common_names=Giant brake
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|name=Litobrochia tripartita
|authority=(Swartz) C. Presl
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Pteris;Pteris tripartita
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|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>stout, short-creeping, densely and conspicuously scaly; scales pale brown. <b>Leaves</b> clustered, 1–2 m. <b>Petiole</b> straw-colored to brownish red, to more than 1 m, scaly proximally, otherwise glabrous at maturity. <b>Blade</b> deltate to pentagonal, pedate, ultimate divisions pinnately divided, 1–2 × 1–2 m; rachis not winged. <b>Pinnae</b> few, closely spaced, remaining green through winter, not decurrent on rachis, not articulate to rachis, oblong-lanceolate, 1–3-forked, to 7 × 6 dm; base asymmetrical, acute; apex acute; rachis and costae glabrate or with minute hairs, especially near axils of proximal pinnae; penultimate pinnules linear to linear-lanceolate, pinnatifid, separated, not remaining green through winter, not articulate to rachis. <b>Ultimate</b> segments of blade numerous, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, to 19 × 6 mm, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse and rounded to acute; terminal segments 3–4 cm longer and more tapering than lateral segments. <b>Veins</b> anastomosing near costae and costules, becoming forked and free near margins of ultimate segments. <b>Sori</b> narrow, blade tissue exposed abaxially.</span><!--

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|habitat=Terrestrial in cypress, pond-apple, and other swamps or forested wet habitats, on constantly moist, circumneutral soils
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=naturalized in scattered locations;Fla.;West Indies;Central America;South America;native to tropical Asia.
|introduced=true
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name=Pteris tripartita
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Litobrochia tripartita
|basionyms=
|family=Pteridaceae
|habitat=Terrestrial in cypress, pond-apple, and other swamps or forested wet habitats, on constantly moist, circumneutral soils
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=naturalized in scattered locations;Fla.;West Indies;Central America;South America;native to tropical Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. (Schrader)
|publication year=1801
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Pteris
|species=Pteris tripartita
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