Polystichum braunii (Braun’s holly fern)

Polystichum braunii (Spenner) Fée

Braun’s holly fern

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Pteridophyta	Ferns
Class	Filicopsida	“Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns
Order	Polypodiales	Polypod ferns
Family	Dryopteridaceae	Wood ferns (about 70% of the ferns)
Genus	Polystichum	From the Greek polys, “many,” and stichos, “row,” referring to the rows of sori on the type species
Species	braunii	After Professor of botany Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun (1805-1877)

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Polystichum braunii (Spenner) Fée var. purshii Fernald

Polystichum braunii (Spenner) Fée ssp. purshii (Fernald) Calder & Roy L. Taylor

Polystichum braunii description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.

5/15/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts
≈ 31 × 21" (78 × 52 cm)

1/19/2021 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts

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