Scottish bracken (<i>Pteridium</i>): New taxa and a new combination

Abstract

Summary In advance of two forthcoming works in which the names will be used, one new species of Pteridium (P. pinetorum C.N. Page & R.R. Mill) and one new subspecies (P. aquilinum (L.) Kuhn subsp. fulvum C.N. Page) are formally described, and one new combination made (P. pinetorum C.N. Page & R .R. Mill subsp. osmundaceum (Christ) C. N. Page, comb, et stat. nov.).