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Herbarium specimen: Dryopteris aemula

Taxon:Dryopteridaceae: Dryopteris aemula (Aiton) Kuntze ("Hay-scented Buckler-fern")
Filed in taxon folder:Dryopteridaceae: Dryopteris aemula (Aiton) Kuntze ("Hay-scented Buckler-fern")
Collection date:27/7/1920
Locality:Great Britain, VC5 South Somerset, Hodder's Combe, ST1440, very locally
ex herb:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Dryopteris aemula herbarium specimen from Hodder's Combe, VC5 South Somerset in 1920.
notes:First found on Quantock by H. Corder a year or 2 ago. See small sessile glands on upper surface, characteristic of aemula.
A plant peculiar to Great Britain and north-west France HST
[The sheet also contains a photograph by HST.]

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Documented by lowfatspread on 8th May 2008.

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