Cystopteris diaphana
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Diaphanous Bladder-fern Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell is a fern
in the family
Cystopteridaceae
.
in February 2000 on the banks of the River Camel
in Cornwall (Murphy & Rumsey, 2005).
)
Fern
A fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta. Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem . They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Cystopteridaceae
Cystopteridaceae
Based on recent cladistic evidence, Cystopteridaceae should be construed as a separate family due to its basal position, sister to all other polypodioid ferns. This clade includes only the genera Acystopteris, Cystopteris and Gymnocarpium. Woodsia is a more advanced species.The ferns in this...
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Status in Britain
The species was found for the first time in BritainUnited Kingdom
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in February 2000 on the banks of the River Camel
River Camel
The River Camel is a river in Cornwall, UK. It rises on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall. The river issues into the Celtic Sea area of the Atlantic Ocean between Stepper Point and Pentire Point having covered a distance of...
in Cornwall (Murphy & Rumsey, 2005).
)