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Atlas Of Ferns Of The British Isles

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A northern Atlantic species found on the higher mountains of<br />

Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands and restricted in Europe to<br />

N. Spain, W. France and the <strong>British</strong> <strong>Isles</strong> where it has a distinct<br />

oceanic distribution. Its yellow-green frond and purplish stipe<br />

are diagnostic. Hybrids involving this species are very rare (see<br />

27.5 x 1, D. x pseudoabbreviata, p. 84) but juvenile or<br />

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immature plants which morphologically appear intermediate<br />

between D.aemula and D.austriaca have been found on Mull,<br />

v.c. 103, and Soay, v.c. 104, and need further investigation.<br />

Such hybrids could only be distinguished from the similarly<br />

triploid D.austriaca x expansa by the lack of chromosome<br />

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