은청개고사리

과명	Aspleniaceae (꼬리고사리과)	속명	Athyrium (개고사리속)
전체학명	Athyrium niponicum var. pictum (Maxwell) Fraser-Jenk.	추천명
이명		외국명	painted lady fern

 

Asplenium niponicum

Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

Athyrium niponicum var. pictum (Maxwell) Fraser-Jenk. is the correct and accepted scientific name for the Japanese Painted Fern. It was named and described as such by Christopher Roy Fraser-Jenkins in Fern Gazette in 1982. It was previously named Athyrium goeringianum var. pictum by T.C. Maxwell.

It is plants like this beautiful Japanese Painted Fern that keep me interested in taxonomy research. Some names take twists and turns like a good suspenseful whodunit movie. I deleted several paragraphs outlining the name changes (which included disagreements of authors names) just since 2013. I don’t want to sound like I am making fun of the botanists and taxonomists who work very hard to name plants and have been working to sort out all the confusion. Most “normal” people have no interest in plant taxonomy and just enjoy growing them in their gardens and beds. Well, I am not exactly normal nor am I saying that botanists and taxonomists aren’t normal. GEEZ! I better stop before I get in trouble.

 

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