Species:
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn.
- Common name:
- Fougère aigle
Eagle fern - Arabic name:
- خنشار العقاب
- Habitat :
- Common in wet sand, and non-calcareous places.
Sable humide, lieux non calcaires - IUCN threat status:
- LC
- Chromosome Number:
- 2n = 104 chr (Gonrall et al., 2021)
Botanic Description
Eng: - Fern with long and ramified rhizome.
- Leaves 20cm to 250cm long, supported by petioles that are more or less 1 meters long. Leaves divided 2 to 3 times and have a ciliated edge.
- Lanceolate pinnules, wide sores with a flap of tissue protecting the sporangia.
- Fructification happens between july and october.
Fr: - Plante à rhizome long et ramifié.
- Frondes longues de 20cm à 250cm, tenues par un pétiole long d'1 mètre plus ou moins. Frondes divisées 2 à 3 fois, à marge ciliée.
- Sores larges, couvrant la face inférieure de la pinnule.
- La fructification a lieu de juillet en octobre.
- Leaves 20cm to 250cm long, supported by petioles that are more or less 1 meters long. Leaves divided 2 to 3 times and have a ciliated edge.
- Lanceolate pinnules, wide sores with a flap of tissue protecting the sporangia.
- Fructification happens between july and october.
Fr: - Plante à rhizome long et ramifié.
- Frondes longues de 20cm à 250cm, tenues par un pétiole long d'1 mètre plus ou moins. Frondes divisées 2 à 3 fois, à marge ciliée.
- Sores larges, couvrant la face inférieure de la pinnule.
- La fructification a lieu de juillet en octobre.
- Kingdom Plantae
- Phylum Streptophyta
- Class Equisetopsida
- Order Polypodiales
- FamilyDennstaedtiaceae
- GenusPteridium
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