Feedback request: Polystichum setiferum (162)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #308304

Taxon:	Dryopteridaceae: Polystichum setiferum (Forssk.) T. Moore ex Woyn. ("Soft Shield-fern")
Other name:	Aspidium subtripinnatum
Filed in taxon folder:	Dryopteridaceae: Polystichum setiferum (Forssk.) T. Moore ex Woyn. ("Soft Shield-fern")
Collected by:	Dr Gustavus A Ornano St Brody
Collection date:	7/1865
Locality:	Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Darley Wood, SO72
ex herb:	Flora of Gloucestershire
Institution:	Gloucester City Museum (GLR)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
Filing note:	Polystichum angulare

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 21^st September 2010.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
21/09/2010	mikedaps	Deleted determination (orig): Aspidium
21/09/2010	mikedaps	Added determination (orig): Aspidium subtripinnatum
21/09/2010	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC64 Darley Head SE1959 (place)
21/09/2010	mikedaps	Added locality: GB VC34 Darley Wood SO795230 (place)
21/09/2010	mikedaps	Added determiner's note: This is N. American
21/09/2010	mikedaps	Deleted determiner's note: Sp. name unclear.
14/10/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC34 Darley Wood SO795230 (place)
14/10/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC34 Darley Wood

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mikedaps wrote

Rather blurry - Looks to me like "Dareley Head" and gone for Darley Head near Bradford but Brody already recorded in the Forest of Dean in Jul 65 so might be Darley Wood at SO795230. Any one see it or the original species name (None in CTW like A. spinulosum match fully) more clearly?

[mossysal]

Distribution and "Flora of Gloucs" seems to suggest the Forest of Dean more likely. I could easily be persuaded it is Wood, not Head!

My [1st edn] CTW gives Aspidium angulare/P. angulare as a synonym for P setiferum so that is OK. A spinulosa is Dryopteris carthusiana, which this is not! I think the label says A. subtripinnatum - but somewhere,doesn't the site say not to bother with obsolete names?

[Mike d'Apice]

I'm out of practice, agreed must be Gloucestershire.... re obsolete that too rings a bell. Thanks amended. Mike