Variety
Pteridium aquilinum pubescens (Hairy brackenfern)
Pteridium aquilinum pubescens. Photo: (c) c michael hogan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken, brake or common bracken), also known as eagle fern, and Eastern brakenfern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres. The extreme lightness of its spores has led to its global distribution.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Class: Polypodiopsida (Ferns)
- Subclass: Polypodiidae (Leptosporangiate ferns)
- Order: Polypodiales
- Suborder: Dennstaedtiineae
- Family: Dennstaedtiaceae (Bracken family)
- Genus: Pteridium (Brackens)
- Species: Pteridium aquilinum (Common bracken)
- Variety: Pteridium aquilinum pubescens (Hairy brackenfern)
- Species: Pteridium aquilinum (Common bracken)
- Genus: Pteridium (Brackens)
- Family: Dennstaedtiaceae (Bracken family)
- Suborder: Dennstaedtiineae
- Order: Polypodiales
- Subclass: Polypodiidae (Leptosporangiate ferns)
- Class: Polypodiopsida (Ferns)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
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