49 Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth

Within this extremely variable and widespread, Eurasiatic and N. American species a large number of lower taxa are described. Among them five subspecies and one variety are mapped. Outside the map area the species s. lat. is reported from at least Rhodesia, Natal, W. India, Java, China, Haiti, Peru and Argentina. It belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 178 and maps 168 A and 168 B). Cf. world map in Meusel et al. 1965, p. 15.