Adiantum capillus-veneris L., 1753

Common names

• 🇬🇧 Maidenhair Fern
• 🇫🇷 Capillaire de Montpellier, Cheveux-de-Vénus, Capillaire cheveux-de-Vénus, Adiante cheveux-de-Vénus

Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Monilophytes
• Class: Polypodiopsida
• Subclass: Polypodiidae
• Order: Polypodiales
• Suborder: Pteridineae
• Family: Pteridaceae
• Subfamily: Vittarioideae
• Genus: Adiantum
• Species: Adiantum capillus-veneris

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
• Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with A. raddianum C.Presl, 1836, whose sori are covered by kidney-shaped indusia, while those of A. capillus-veneris are covered by oval indusia.

Diploid (2n = 60).

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). Adiantum capillus-veneris (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164082/85448046

• Prelli, R., & Boudrie, M. (2024). Les fougères et plantes alliées d’Europe (2nd ed., p. 196). Biotope.

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 24). Biotope.