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	Athyrium distentifolium  TAUSCH ex OPIZ

APG-Fam.: Athyriaceae / Lady Fern Fam.       Fam. tradit.: Pteridopsida / True Ferns

Synon.:  Athyrium alpestre  (HOPPE) RYLANDS

Genus:  Athyrium  ROTH

Authors:
	TAUSCH:		Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (1793 - 1848), Bohemian botanist
	OPIZ:		Philipp Maximilian Opiz (1787 - 1858), Czech-German botanist
	HOPPE:		David Heinrich Hoppe (1760 - 1846), German physician and botanist
	RYLANDS:		Thomas Glazebrook Rylands (1818 - 1900), Britischer businessman and naturalist
	ROTH:		Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757 - 1834), physician and botanist from Bremen (Northern Germany)

Etymology:
	Athyrium:		athyrein = to change (different forms of spore heaps)
	distentifolium:		with distantly standing leaves
	alpestre:		from the Alps

Fig. 1:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern D Black-Forest, Hornisgrinde 30.7.2013

Fig. 2:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern D Black-Forest, Hornisgrinde 30.7.2013

Fig. 3:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern D Black-Forest, Hornisgrinde 30.7.2013

Fig. 4:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern D Black-Forest, Hornisgrinde 30.7.2013

Fig. 5:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern D Black-Forest, Hornisgrinde 31.7.2013

Fig. 6:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern I Passo San Marco 10.6.2017

Fig. 7:  Athyrium distentifolium / Alpine Lady Fern I Passo San Marco 10.6.2017

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