Latin name: Dryopteris guanchica Family:  Aspidiaceae
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Description: Fern with everlasting , erect or rising and bulky rhizome. Fronds arranged in dense clump, of (40 50-80 (140) cm of length; petiole 2/3-1/2 of the length of the frond, thin, yellowish chestnut in most of its length, densely palearcticus in the base. Paleae lanceolate, of chestnut-colored - pale to brilliant chestnut, concoloras or sometimes with a darker tenuous central band. Triangular sheet - lanceolate, herbaceous or weakly coriaceous, green dark, brilliant, eglandular, 3-pinnate (sometimes a fourth time pinnatifid on the basal pinnae).

Distribution: Paleomediterranean relicto is present in some macaronesican islands, northwest and west of the Iberian Peninsula (Galicia and Portugal). Its presence in the hills of Algeciras, based on a sheet gathered in 1851, it has not been confirmed during the accomplishment of this work, by what it is considered to be extinct in Andalusia.

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Category IUCN: LC
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