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Palette
Primary
Accent
Background
Card
Foreground
A single pressed fern frond on a pale mount
HB.4417 · Coll. A. Nwosu · 12.viii.1974 · Glen Affric, VC96 · alt. 340 m
Accepted name

Polystichum aculeatum

(L.) Roth, 1799

Hard shield fern

Determinations
  1. Polystichum aculeatumH. Vestergaard · 04.ii.2019 · frond dissection and spore measurement
  2. Polystichum setiferumR. Ferreira · 17.vi.1988 · field character only
  3. Aspidium aculeatumA. Nwosu · 12.viii.1974 · original collection label

The 1988 determination was made without dissection and is retained because the sheet was cited under that name in two published floras.

Provenance
Locality
Glen Affric, Inverness-shire
Grid
NH 2032 2311
Habitat
Shaded ravine, base-rich flush
Altitude
340 m
Accessioned
03.xi.1974
Duplicates
E, BM