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Internal ID UUID64407717f0d68528154918
Scientific name Dryopteris expansa
Authority (C.Presl) Fraser-Jenk. & Jermy
First published in Fern Gaz. 11: 338. 1977

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Dryopteris expansa, commonly known as the alpine buckler fern, northern buckler-fern or spreading wood fern, is a species of fern native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It prefers cool, moist mixed or evergreen forests and rock crevices on alpine slopes, often growing on rotting logs and tree stumps and rocky slopes. It has a stout, woody, creeping or ascending stock with large, green lacy fronds typically 10–60 cm (4–24 in) and rarely 90 cm (35 in) long. The root contains filicin, a substance that paralyses tapeworms and other internal parasites and has been used in herbal medicine as a worm expellent.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Dryopteris minimisora Nakai Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 27: 19. 1949. (1949)
Lastrea expansa C.Presl Tent. Pterid. 76. 1836
Dryopteris assimilis S.Walker Amer. J. Bot. 48: 607 (1961)
Dryopteris dilatata subsp. americana Hultén
Nephrodium expansum C.Presl Reliq. Haenk. 1: 38 (1825)
Dryopteris spinulosa subsp. assimilis (S.Walker) Schidlay Fl. Slov. 2: 217 1966
Dryopteris morrisonensis Hayata J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30. 450. 1911; Ic. Fl. Formos (1911)
Dryopteris siranensis Nakai Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 3. 1953. (1953)
Dryopteris austriaca subsp. assimilis (Walker) O.Bolòs & Vigo Fl. Països Catalans 170. 1984
Dryopteris carthusiana subsp. assimilis (Walker) O.Bolòs, Vigo, Masalles & Ninot Fl. Man. Països Catalans 1213. 1990
Dryopteris expansa subsp. assimilis (S.Walker) Tzvelev Sosud. Rast. Sovet. Dal'nego Vostoka 5: 54. 1991
Dryopteris spinulosa var. morrisonensis Hayata J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30: 422. 1911
Aspidium spinulosum var. oblongum Milde Fil. Europ. Atlant. 137. 1867

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Language Common/alternative name
English spreading woodfern
English alpine buckler fern
English northern buckler-fern
English spreading wood fern
Czech kapraď podobná
German feingliedriger wurmfarn
Estonian laiuv sõnajalg
Finnish isoalvejuuri
Hungarian hegyi pajzsika
Norwegian Bokmål bruntelg
Norwegian Bokmål sauetelg
Dutch tere stekelvaren
Polish nerecznica górska
Russian Щитовник распростёртый
Swedish nordbräken
Chinese 闊葉鱗毛蕨
Chinese 广布鳞毛蕨
Chinese 大鳞毛蕨

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Dryopteris expansa var. alpina (Moore) Viane Pl. Syst. Evol. 153(1-2): 90 (1986)
Dryopteris expansa var. willeana (Lid) Elven Nordic J. Bot. 16(1): 4 (1996): (1996)

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • China
      • China North-central
      • Inner Mongolia
      • Manchuria
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
      • Taiwan
    • Mongolia
      • Mongolia
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Kamchatka
      • Khabarovsk
      • Kuril Islands
      • Magadan
      • Primorye
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • Tuva
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
    • Western Asia
      • Turkey
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Iceland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • Newfoundland
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Minnesota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Michigan
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001107301
UNII 94I3R074DD
Canadensys 5391
USDA Plants DREX2
Tropicos 26600148
INPN 95566
Flora of Italy 119
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:84669-2
The Plant List tro-26600148
Open Tree Of Life 866221
NCBI Taxonomy 239563
NBN Atlas NHMSYS0000458190
Nature Serve 2.153921
IPNI 84669-2
iNaturalist 64055
GBIF 5275102
Freebase /m/066vy1
WisFlora 3442
EPPO DYOEX
EOL 597374
Elurikkus 4467
Calflora (Californian flora) 2824
USDA GRIN 456027
Wikipedia Dryopteris_expansa

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Phytogeographic Characteristics of Montane Coniferous Forests of the Central Balkan Peninsula (SE Europe) Ilić T, Kuzmanović N, Vukojičić S, Lakušić D Plants (Basel) 22-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9741231
doi:10.3390/plants11233194
PMID:36501234
Scale‐dependent effects of marine subsidies on the island biogeographic patterns of plants Obrist DS, Fitzpatrick OT, Brown NE, Hanly PJ, Nijland W, Reshitnyk LY, Wickham SB, Darimont CT, Reynolds JD, Starzomski BM Ecol Evol 09-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9461347
doi:10.1002/ece3.9270
PMID:36177118
Phylogenetic history of vascular plant metabolism revealed using a macroevolutionary common garden Neto-Bradley BM, Muir CD, Whitton J, Pennell MW Proc Biol Sci 02-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8170189
doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0605
PMID:34074123
Nutritional and Antioxidant Potential of Fiddleheads from European Ferns Dvorakova M, Pumprova K, Antonínová Ž, Rezek J, Haisel D, Ekrt L, Vanek T, Langhansova L Foods 19-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC7923283
doi:10.3390/foods10020460
PMID:33669902
Insights into the evolutionary history and widespread occurrence of antheridiogen systems in ferns Hornych O, Testo WL, Sessa EB, Watkins JE Jr, Campany CE, Pittermann J, Ekrt L New Phytol 25-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7754499
doi:10.1111/nph.16836
PMID:32740926
Site fertility drives temporal turnover of vegetation at high latitudes Maliniemi T, Happonen K, Virtanen R Ecol Evol 29-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6912880
doi:10.1002/ece3.5778
PMID:31871643
Multiple environmental changes drive forest floor vegetation in a temperate mountain forest Helm N, Essl F, Mirtl M, Dirnböck T Ecol Evol 01-Mar-2017
PMCID:PMC5383490
doi:10.1002/ece3.2801
PMID:28405280
Twenty years of ecosystem response after clearcutting and slashburning in conifer forests of central British Columbia, Canada Chandler JR, Haeussler S, Hamilton EH, Feller M, Bradfield G, Simard SW PLoS One 24-Feb-2017
PMCID:PMC5325286
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172667
PMID:28234960
Fern rhizomes as fodder in Norway Alm T J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 06-Sep-2016
PMCID:PMC5013593
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0112-0
PMID:27600530
Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: Prioritising British Plant Species According to Evolutionary Distinctiveness, and Accuracy and Magnitude of Decline Pearse WD, Chase MW, Crawley MJ, Dolphin K, Fay MF, Joseph JA, Powney G, Preston CD, Rapacciuolo G, Roy DB, Purvis A PLoS One 27-May-2015
PMCID:PMC4446313
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126524
PMID:26018568
Alien Roadside Species More Easily Invade Alpine than Lowland Plant Communities in a Subarctic Mountain Ecosystem Lembrechts JJ, Milbau A, Nijs I PLoS One 26-Feb-2014
PMCID:PMC3935920
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089664
PMID:24586947
Molecular circumscription and major evolutionary lineages of the fern genus Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae) Zhang LB, Zhang L, Dong SY, Sessa EB, Gao XF, Ebihara A BMC Evol Biol 13-Sep-2012
PMCID:PMC3483261
doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-180
PMID:22971160
Plant Diversity Changes during the Postglacial in East Asia: Insights from Forest Refugia on Halla Volcano, Jeju Island Dolezal J, Altman J, Kopecky M, Cerny T, Janecek S, Bartos M, Petrik P, Srutek M, Leps J, Song JS PLoS One 16-Mar-2012
PMCID:PMC3306376
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033065
PMID:22438890
Mixed mating system in the fern Asplenium scolopendrium: implications for colonization potential Wubs ER, de Groot GA, During HJ, Vogel JC, Grundmann M, Bremer P, Schneider H Ann Bot 03-Aug-2010
PMCID:PMC2944980
doi:10.1093/aob/mcq157
PMID:20682575
Evolutionary genomics revealed interkingdom distribution of Tcn1-like chromodomain-containing Gypsy LTR retrotransposons among fungi and plants Novikova O, Smyshlyaev G, Blinov A BMC Genomics 08-Apr-2010
PMCID:PMC2864245
doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-231
PMID:20377908

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Diphenylmethanes
Methylenebisdesaspidinol 613973 Click to see CCCC(=O)C1=C(C(=C(C=C1O)OC)CC2=C(C=C(C(=C2O)C(=O)CCC)O)OC)O 432.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.3891/ACTA.CHEM.SCAND.17-1886
Phloraspidinol 15190 Click to see CCCC(=O)C1=C(C(=C(C=C1O)OC)CC2=C(C(=C(C(=C2O)C(=O)CCC)O)C)OC)O 446.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.3891/ACTA.CHEM.SCAND.17-1886
> Hydrocarbons / Saturated hydrocarbons / Alkanes
Pentadecane 12391 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 212.41 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2007-969987
Tetradecane 12389 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCC 198.39 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2007-969987
Tridecane 12388 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCC 184.36 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2007-969987
> Hydrocarbons / Unsaturated hydrocarbons / Unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons
1-Heptadecene 23217 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC=C 238.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2007-969987
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Fatty Acyls / Lineolic acids and derivatives
Linoleic Acid 5280450 Click to see CCCCCC=CCC=CCCCCCCCC(=O)O 280.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2007-969987
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Diterpenoids
orthosiphol I 10674582 Click to see CC(=O)OC1C(C(C2CC(C3(C(C2(C1OC(=O)C4=CC=CC=C4)C)C(=O)CC(C3=O)(C)C=C)O)O)(C)C)OC(=O)C 570.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2042-7158.1961.TB11865.X
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Terpene glycosides
(1S,3aS,4R,7R,8aR)-4-(hydroxymethyl)-1-methyl-7-[2-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxypropan-2-yl]-3,3a,4,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-1H-azulen-2-one 10938610 Click to see CC1C2CC(CCC(C2CC1=O)CO)C(C)(C)OC3C(C(C(C(O3)CO)O)O)O 416.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.3891/ACTA.CHEM.SCAND.18-0344
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Tetraterpenoids / Carotenoids / Xanthophylls
Zeinoxanthin 5281234 Click to see CC1=C(C(CC(C1)O)(C)C)C=CC(=CC=CC(=CC=CC=C(C)C=CC=C(C)C=CC2C(=CCCC2(C)C)C)C)C 552.90 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-1978(85)90030-4
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Triterpenoids
Squalene 638072 Click to see CC(=CCCC(=CCCC(=CCCC=C(C)CCC=C(C)CCC=C(C)C)C)C)C 410.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2007-969987
> Organic oxygen compounds / Organooxygen compounds / Carbonyl compounds / Phenylketones / Alkyl-phenylketones
Aspidinol 122841 Click to see CCCC(=O)C1=C(C(=C(C=C1O)OC)C)O 224.25 unknown https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2042-7158.1961.TB11865.X
Desaspidin 8238 Click to see CCCC(=O)C1=C(C(=C(C=C1O)OC)CC2=C(C(C(=O)C(=C2O)C(=O)CCC)(C)C)O)O 446.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2042-7158.1961.TB11865.X
> Organoheterocyclic compounds / Benzoxepines
(9S,10R)-10-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-9-methyl-8-methylidene-9,10-dihydro-[1,3]dioxolo[4,5-g][2]benzoxepin-6-one 101123627 Click to see CC1C(C2=C(C=CC3=C2OCO3)C(=O)OC1=C)C4=CC5=C(C=C4)OCO5 352.30 unknown https://doi.org/10.3891/ACTA.CHEM.SCAND.17-2361

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