Atlas Of Ferns Of The British Isles

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TRICHOMANES
SPECIOSUM
Killarney Fern
CHANNEL ISLANDS
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15.1 Trichomanes speciosum Willd.
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A species confined in Europe to the western seaboard although
the distribution is controlled within that climatic zone by
suitable substrate (preferably a coarse sandstone interbedded
with some impervious layer which can produce lateral
movement of ground water). Many old sites have been made
extinct by the depredation of collectors; it may yet be refound
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on Arran, v.c. 100, and on the northernmost locality so far
recorded, Ardlamont Point, v.c. 98 (see W.Stewart, Trans.
Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow 6: 18-21; 1899). The map shows as a
solid dot all squares where the species has been at any time
recorded. Trichomanes speciosum is protected by the
Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act, 1975.
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