Other common names:
Mackay's Bladder Fern, Mackay's Brittle Fern Other scientific names: Nephrodium tenue French names:
Cystoptère grêle Family: Wood Fern Family (Dryopteridaceae) Native/Non-native:
Native For more information visit: Ontario Ferns Photographs:
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A Mackay's Fragile Fern frond.
These are fairly small ferns.
Nice clump of Mackay's Fragile Fern on a mossy rock face.
Underside of the frond, showing sori.
Underside.
Base of the frond stalk.
Another nice patch on a mossy rock face in the deep woods.
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The entire Province/State is coloured, regardless of where in that Province/State it occurs.
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