Polypodium cambricum L., 1753
Common names
- 🇬🇧 Southern Polypody
- 🇫🇷 Polypode du Pays de Galles, Polypode austral
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Monilophytes
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Subclass: Polypodiidae
- Order: Polypodiales
- Suborder: Polypodiineae
- Family: Polypodiaceae
- Subfamily: Polypodioideae
- Genus: Polypodium
- Species: Polypodium cambricum
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern
Notes
Possible confusion with P. interjectum Shivas, 1961, whose fronds are narrower (width/length ratio is usually ≥ ⅓ and ≤ ½), becoming narrower gradually at the tip.
Possible confusion with P. vulgare L., 1753, whose fronds are narrower (width/length ratio is usually ≤ ⅓), and whose pinnae are usually rounded.
Diploid (2n = 74).
Hybridizes with:
- P. interjectum Shivas, 1961 to produce P. × shivasiae Rothm., 1962, P;
- P. vulgare L., 1753 to produce P. × font-queri Rothm., 1937, P.
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). Polypodium cambricum (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/83650696/85447687
Prelli, R., & Boudrie, M. (2024). Les fougères et plantes alliées d’Europe (2nd ed., p. 418). Biotope.
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 23). Biotope.