Pteris pulchraSchltdl. & Cham.

WFO wfo-0001113160 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pteris pulchra, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. a Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-08-17 / obs. 10005267
Pteris pulchra, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. b Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10005277
Pteris pulchra, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. c Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10005291

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3940912
Filed as
Pteris pulchra Schltdl. & Cham.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
F. G. Lorea-Hernández 1984-08-23
Origin
MX
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Pteris pulchra is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestColombiaGuatemalaNicaragua
Native distribution of Pteris pulchra, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Guatemala GUA
Nicaragua NIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Litobrochia mexicana Fée
  • Litobrochia pulchra C.Presl
  • Pteris arborescens M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Pteris mexicana (Fée) Fourn.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.