Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn, 1879
Common names
- 🇬🇧 Bracken
- 🇫🇷 Ptéridion aigle, Fougère à l’aigle, Fougère aigle, Fougère commune, Ptéride aquiline
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Monilophytes
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Subclass: Polypodiidae
- Order: Polypodiales
- Suborder: Dennstaedtiineae
- Family: Dennstaedtiaceae
- Genus: Pteridium
- Species: Pteridium aquilinum
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern
Notes
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- P. aquilinum subsp. aquilinum (L.) Kuhn, 1879: diploid (2n = 104), P;
- P. aquilinum subsp. capense (Thunb.) C.Chr., 1906;
- P. aquilinum subsp. centrali-africanum Hieron., 1914;
- P. aquilinum subsp. decompositum (Gaudich.) Lamoureux ex J.A.Thomson, 2004;
- P. aquilinum subsp. feei (W.Schaffn. ex Fée) J.A.Thomson, Mickel & Mehltr., 2008;
- P. aquilinum subsp. japonicum (Nakai) Á.Löve & D.Löve, 1977;
- P. aquilinum subsp. latiusculum (Desv.) Hultén, 1941, A;
- P. aquilinum subsp. pinetorum (C.N.Page & R.R.Mill) J.A.Thomson, 2004;
- P. aquilinum subsp. pseudocaudatum (Clute) Hultén, 1941;
- P. aquilinum subsp. pubescens (Underw.) J.A.Thomson, Mickel & Mehltr., 2008;
- P. aquilinum subsp. wightianum (Wall. ex J.Agardh) W.C.Shieh, 1973.
Photographs
Sources
Badré, F., & Deschatres, R. (1979). Les Ptéridophytes de la France : liste commentée des espèces (taxinomie, cytologie, écologie et répartition générale). Candollea, 34(2), 379-457. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-880127
Christenhusz, M., Bento Elias, R., Dyer, R., Ivanenko, Y., Rouhan, G., Rumsey, F., & Väre, H. (2017). Pteridium aquilinum (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/73691742/85427115
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