Cyrtomium falcatum

Cyrtomium falcatum

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Polypodiineae
Family: Dryopteridaceae
Genus: Cyrtomium
Species:
C. falcatum
Binomial name
Cyrtomium falcatum
Synonyms[1]
  • Polypodium falcatum L.f.
  • Aspidium falcatum (L.f.) Sw.
  • Dryopteris falcata (L.f.) Kuntze
  • Polystichum falcatum (L.f.) Diels
  • Phanerophlebia falcata (L.f.) Copel.
  • Cyrtomium yiangshanense Ching & Y.C.Lan

Cyrtomium falcatum is a species of fern, commonly known as house holly-fern[2] and Japanese holly fern, in the wood fern family Dryopteridaceae. It is native to eastern Asia.

It grows from crevices in coastal cliffs, stream banks, rocky slopes, and other moist, stable areas.

  1. ^ Synonyms Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 12 Jan 2012
  2. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.