Botrychium boreale

Botrychium boreale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Ophioglossales
Family:	Ophioglossaceae
Genus:	Botrychium
Species:	B. boreale
Binomial name
Botrychium boreale (Fr.) Milde
Synonyms
Botrychium crassinerviumRupr. 1858 [1]

Botrychium boreale, commonly called northern moonwort, is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae. ^{[2] [3]} It has a short, single leaved rhizome that stands upright. ^{[4] [5]}

Taxonomy

Botrychium boreale was first described in 1857 by Julius Milde, based on material from Norway. ^[6]

References

1. B. crassinervium Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 02 Jan 2012
2. "PLANTS Profile for Botrychium boreale".
3. Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.
4. Hördur Kristinsson. Flowering Plants and Ferns of Iceland. ( ISBN   978-9979-3-3158-2)
5. Grønlands flora. Tyge Wittrock Böcher (3. reviderede udgave ed.). København: P. Haase & Sons. 1978. ISBN   87-559-0385-1. OCLC   183098604.
6. Milde, J. (1857). "Ueber Botrychium boreale Milde". Botanische Zeitung (in German). 15 (51): 880–881.