Botrychium lunaria

Botrychium lunaria

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Ophioglossales
Family: Ophioglossaceae
Genus: Botrychium
Species:
B. lunaria
Binomial name
Botrychium lunaria
Synonyms[4]
  • Blechnum racemosum Bubani
  • Botrychium lunatum (Salisb.) Gray
  • Botrypus lunaria (L.) Rich.
  • Ophioglossum pennatum Lam.
  • Osmunda lunaria L.
  • Osmunda lunata Salisb.

Botrychium lunaria is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae[5] known by the common name moonwort[6] or common moonwort. It is the most widely distributed moonwort, growing throughout the Northern Hemisphere across Eurasia and from Alaska to Greenland, as well as temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

  1. ^ Christenhusz, M.; Chadburn, H.; Bento Elias, R.; et al. (2017). "Botrychium lunaria". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T55696211A85441311. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Botrychium lunaria Common Moonwort". NatureServe. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  3. ^  Under its treatment as Botrychium lunaria (from its basionym of Osmunda lunaria), this plant name was first published in Journal für die Botanik 1800(2): 110. 1801. "Name - !Botrychium lunaria (L.) Sw". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  4. ^ Hassler, Michael. "Botrychium lunaria". World Ferns. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  5. ^ Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.
  6. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.