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.
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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