Dryopteris villarii

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  • Leaves in dense tufts, up to 30 à 50 cm in length
  • Blade dark green, glandular on the two sides (use lens)
  • Stem and rachis very scaly
  • Distinctively stemmed pinnulae

DRYOPTERIDACEAE

genus Dryopteris

  • Growth in spring, fructification in summer, disappearing in fall
  • Only on limestone
  • Boulders, screes, lapiaz crevices, from an altitude of 1000 m to 2000 m in some places

 
  • Lapiaz and screes above about
    1500 m (Hauts Plateaux, Font d'Urle, ...)