Cryptogramma crispa 高山珠蕨

Common name: Parsley Fern 歐芹蕨

Scientific name: Cryptogramma crispa 高山珠蕨
Genus: Cryptogramma 珠蕨屬
Family: Pteridaceae 鳳尾蕨科, brake* family, maidenhair^ fern family

Remarks:

* The word "brake" comes from Middle English (brake or bracu), originally meaning rough, broken ground or a thicket 灌木叢 overgrown with ferns and bushes. In taxonomy, "brake" refers to ferns in the genus Pteris 鳳尾蕨屬 (and the family Pteridaceae 鳳尾蕨科).

Note the similar word "bracken" 歐洲蕨, 蕨菜 refers specifically to the genus Pteridium 蕨屬 (most notably Pteridium aquilinum 歐洲蕨), which belongs to a completely different family, Dennstaedtiaceae 碗蕨科, bracken family, bracken fern family.

^ In taxonomy, the "maidenhair fern" refers to the genus Adiantum 鐵線蕨屬 of the family Pteridaceae 鳳尾蕨科. The common name maidenhair came from the thin dark rachis 葉軸 on the fronds, resemble long, fine hair arranged in a graceful sweep.

Habitat: Growers describe it as a fanatical calcifuge 極端的嫌鈣植物, it grows where ther is no trace of lime.

Date: 23rd July

[021] A small, tufted 簇生的, 叢生的 'parsley-like+' fern with short rhizome. (could not be seen in the above photo) It has 2 different sorts of finely dissected, triangular frond.

(Note+: Parsley refers to Petroselinum crispum 歐芹、香芹、巴西利、巴西里、洋香菜、洋芫荽、番芫荽、荷蘭芹 of Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) 傘形科)

Those following photos are vegetative (sterile) fronds: