Species Detail - Soft Shield-fern (Polystichum setiferum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Polystichum setiferum
Soft Shield-fern
Aspidium aculeatum var. angulare, Aspidium aculeatum var. angulare, Aspidium angulare, Aspidium angulare subsp. aculeatum, Aspidium angulare subsp. aculeatum, Dryopteris setifera, Dryopteris setifera subsp. angularis, Polypodium setiferum, 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
436
161
75
01/01/1970
17/08/2024
1 January (recorded in 1970)
22 December (recorded in 2020)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Soft Shield-fern (Polystichum setiferum), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/409/Species/127820>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)