Polystichum braunii: UW-Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium: Plant Details Page

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Family Dryopteridaceae
Polystichum braunii (Spenn.) Fée
Braun's holly fern
Polystichum: from the Greek polys, "many," and stichos, "row," referring to the rows of sori on the type species
braunii: for Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (1805-1877), professor of botany at Karlsruhe, Freiburg im Breisgau, Giessen and Berlin, cryptogamist and morphologist

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Status:	Threatened
Plant:	perennial fern
Habitat:	moist coniferous forests
(Glossary)

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Synonyms

Aspidium braunii Spenn.
Polystichum braunii (Spenn.) Fée subsp. purshii (Fernald) Calder & Roy L.Taylor
Polystichum braunii (Spenn.) Fée var. purshii Fernald

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