Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.
  • Fl. Rocky Mts. : 1043 (1917)
  • Beech fern


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2025): Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001109433. Accessed on: 04 Jun 2025'

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Lvs scattered on long, slender, densely hairy and scaly rhizomes, to 5 dm, the pilose and scaly petiole mostly longer than the blade; blade 10–25 cm, mostly 1–2 times as long as wide, ciliate-margined, pinnate-pinnatifid, pinnae mostly 10–15 opposite or offset pairs below the pinnatifid apex, to 3 cm wide, approximate, broadly sessile and narrowly confluent along the rachis, only the lowest pair a little removed and often retrorsely divergent, commonly a little shorter than the second pair; segments of the pinnae oblong, obtuse, entire or the largest crenate to subpinnatifid; veins simple or once forked; rachis, costae and veins hairy beneath, the rachis also with abundant brown, lance-ovate scales; indusium none; 2n=90. Moist cliffs and woods; circumboreal, s. in Amer. to N.C., Tenn., Io., and Oreg. (Dryopteris p.; Phegopteris polypodioides)

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    Northeastern FloraGeneral Information

    Lvs scattered on long, slender, densely hairy and scaly rhizomes, to 5 dm, the pilose and scaly petiole mostly longer than the blade; blade 10–25 cm, mostly 1–2 times as long as wide, ciliate-margined, pinnate-pinnatifid, pinnae mostly 10–15 opposite or offset pairs below the pinnatifid apex, to 3 cm wide, approximate, broadly sessile and narrowly confluent along the rachis, only the lowest pair a little removed and often retrorsely divergent, commonly a little shorter than the second pair; segments of the pinnae oblong, obtuse, entire or the largest crenate to subpinnatifid; veins simple or once forked; rachis, costae and veins hairy beneath, the rachis also with abundant brown, lance-ovate scales; indusium none; 2n=90. Moist cliffs and woods; circumboreal, s. in Amer. to N.C., Tenn., Io., and Oreg. (Dryopteris p.; Phegopteris polypodioides)

    Distribution Map

     
    • Native distribution
    Found in
    • Europe Northern Europe Ireland

    Nationally Preferred Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    Beech fernEnglishIE
    Raithneach feáIrishIE

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