Biology:Struthiopteris fallax

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Short description: Species of fern in the family Blechnaceae

Struthiopteris fallax
Källkambräken - Blechnum spicant var.fallax0125 - Flickr - Ragnhild & Neil Crawford.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Blechnaceae
Genus: Struthiopteris
Species:
S. fallax
Binomial name
Struthiopteris fallax
(Lange) S.Molino, Gabriel y Galán & Wasowicz
Synonyms

Struthiopteris fallax is a small species of fern in the family Blechnaceae.[1] It is endemic to Iceland where it lives in close proximity to hot springs.[2]

In Iceland it is locally red listed as an endangered species (EN)[3] but as of April 2021 it has not been assessed by the IUCN.

References

  1. "Stuthiopteris fallax (Lange) S.Molino, Gabriel y Galán & Wasowicz". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/536WR. 
  2. Molino, Sonia; Gabriel y Galán, José M.; Wasowicz, Pawel; de la Fuente, Pablo; Sessa, Emily B. (2019). "The Struthiopteris spicant (Blechnaceae, Polypodiopsida) complex in Western Europe, with proposals for taxonomic and nomenclatural changes". Plant Systematics and Evolution 305: 255-268. doi:10.1007/s00606-019-1565-0. 
  3. Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands [Icelandic Institute of Natural History] (1996). Válisti 1: Plöntur. (in Icelandic) Reykjavík: Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands.

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