Aspleniaceae
Cystopteris

Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell

First published in Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 21(4): 47 (1963)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Africa, W. & S. Europe to Siberia and Nepal, Central America to N. Argentina, Caribbean. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Algeria, Altay, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Azores, Bolivia, Brazil South, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Comoros, Corse, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Great Britain, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Krasnoyarsk, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Madeira, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Réunion, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, West Himalaya, Yemen

Introduced into:

New Zealand North, New Zealand South

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2023). https://doi.org/10.15304/nacc.id9057. epublication.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & Parris, B.S. (2020). Pteridophytes of Turkey - A revised check-list and their relationship to Europe and the West Himalaya. Indian Journal of Forestry 43: 263-284. [Cited as Cystopteris fragilis subsp. diaphana.]
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Cystopteris viridula.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2023). https://doi.org/10.15304/nacc.id9057. epublication.
  • (2024). https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.53.53302. epublication.
  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & Parris, B.S. (2020). Pteridophytes of Turkey - A revised check-list and their relationship to Europe and the West Himalaya. Indian Journal of Forestry 43: 263-284.
  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2018). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 2: 1-573. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
  • Prelli, R. & Boudrie, M. (2021). Les Fougères et plantes alliées d'Europe: 1-528. BIOTOPE.
  • Schäfer, H. (2021). Flora of the Azores a field guide: 1-445. Margraf Publishers GmbH.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

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