| Scientific Name: | Pteris ensiformis |
| Common Name: | table fern, silver lace fern, variegated brake fern |
| Family Name: | Pteridaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Bipinnate, Lanceolate, Oblong, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Fronds feathery, usually variegated, lamina oblong, 10-25(-40)cm long × 5-15cm wide, bipinnate to tripinnate; pinnae 2-6 pairs, opposite, stipe 7-15cm long x 1.5-2mm wide; fertile fronds 20-30(-60) cm long x 3-10cm wide, pinnae narrower and more widely spaced, ultimate segments linear, 7-17cm long x 0.5-1cm wide, stipe and rachis turning straw-colored, 20-55cm long, sori linear and form along the margins of the pinnae, often covered by enrolled margins. | |