Polystichum lonchitis

Holly Fern

• Tufts with 20 to 40 cm long leaves
• Green blade, leathery, divided once
• Eared leaflets, scythe-shaped, dentate

DRYOPTERIDACEAE

= ASPIDIACEAE

• Development in spring, fructification in summer, disappearing the next summer
• Lapiaz crevices, screes, wooded rocky soils; rarely below an elevation of 1000 m

• Widely spread but not abundant in Vercors: Sornin, Herbouilly, Font d'Urle, Hauts Plateaux, Mont Aiguille