Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Botrychium lunaria (L.) Sw.
Family : OPHIOGLOSSACEAE
Genus : Botrychium
Catalan common name : Llunària.
Spanish common name : Botritis. Lunaria. Lunaria menor.
Province distribution : Barcelona. Castellón. Gerona. Lérida. Tarragona.
General distribution : Boreo-alpine
Flowering time : June. July. August.
Life-forms : Geophyte.
Habitat : Preferentment prats alpins silicícoles, però també roquissars, llocs higrotorbosos, pastures mesòfiles, etc.
Uses and properties : Medicinal.
Characteristics : Preferably alpine silicicoles (acidophiles) but also rocky places, hygroturbic places, mesophilic pastures, etc. A small rhizomatous fern that only produces one frond a year. This has two parts: one fertile or sporophore and the other sterile or trophophore. This later is laminar in shape and is divided into 3-9 pairs of half-moon shaped segments. The sporophore is a branched structure and on these branches the sporangii are borne.
