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Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum (L.) Kuhn, 1879

🇬🇧 Bracken

🇫🇷 Fougère à l'aigle, Fougère aigle, Fougère commune, Ptéride aquiline, Ptéridion aigle

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Monilophytes
  • Class: Polypodiopsida
  • Subclass: Polypodiidae
  • Order: Polypodiales
  • Suborder: Dennstaedtiineae
  • Family: Dennstaedtiaceae
  • Genus: Pteridium
  • Species: Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Notes

Type subspecies with elongated, sessile pinnules, and pointed pinnulets.

Photographs

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Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum
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Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum - Pinnae
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Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum - Pinnules

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

  • Prelli, R., & Boudrie, M. (2024). Les fougères et plantes alliées d’Europe (2nd ed., p. 221). Biotope.

  • Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 10). Biotope.

  • Zenkteler, E., & Nowak, O. (2019). Application of morphometric study to discriminate Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn subsp. pinetorum (C. N. Page & R. R. Mill 1995) J. A. Thomson in Poland. Biodiversity Research and Conservation, 56, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.2478/biorc-2019-0015