Species Detail - Soft Shield-fern (Polystichum setiferum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Flora of County Cavan".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Polystichum setiferum
Soft Shield-fern
NHMSYS0000461949
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Aspidium aculeatum var. angulare (Kit. ex Willd.) H.C. Watson, Aspidium aculeatum var. angulare (Kit. ex Willd.) H.C.Watson, Aspidium angulare (Kit. ex Willd.) C. Presl, Aspidium angulare subsp. aculeatum (Kit. ex Willd.) Hook. f., Aspidium angulare subsp. aculeatum (Kit. ex Willd.) Hook.f., Dryopteris setifera (Forssk.) Woyn. ex Schinz & Thell., Dryopteris setifera subsp. angularis (Kit. ex Willd.) Maire, Polypodium setiferum Forssk., Polystichum aculeatum auct., non (L.) Roth , Polystichum braunii auct. , Polystichum braunii auct., non (Spenn.) Fée
N/A
poset
(Forssk.) T. Moore ex Woyn.
fern
Species
130
20
6
29/05/1955
31/07/2000
1 January (recorded in 1970)
22 December (recorded in 2020)
National Botanic Gardens, Flora of County Cavan, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Soft Shield-fern (Polystichum setiferum), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/183/Species/127820>