Dryopteris Dryopteris, (Vili.) H. P. Fuchs

6. D. carthusiana (Vili.) H. P. Fuchs , Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 105:339 (1958)

(D. spinulosa Watt). Rhizome procumbent or creeping. Leaves 12-60 x 5-25 cm, stiffly erect; petiole about as long as lamina; scales pale brown, concolorous; lamina lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, light to yellowish-green, with minute glandular hairs beneath, 3-pinnate or almost so; pinnae 15-25 on each side, triangular-ovate or -lanceolate, shortly stalked, pinnate; pinnules pinnate or almost so, more or less flat. Sori 0-5-1 mm in diameter, in 2 rows on each fertile pinnule; indusium eglandular. 2/7= 164. Most o f Europe, but only on mountains in the south; in the north, nearly to 70°. Al Au Be Br Bu Co Cz D a Fe G a Ge H b He Ho?Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su.