Common moonwort

Scientific name: Botrychium lunaria

Officially approvedEntity code: ENT-0553

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Structure

Form and structure

Botrychium lunaria has a sessile or short-stalked sterile leafy part (trophophore), whose stalk is shorter than the distance between the two lowest pairs of leaflets.

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2Botrychium lunaria (common moonwort): Go BotanySRC-DSC-CD7829C746

How it functions

Botrychium lunaria is a diploid fern with a very large genome of about 19.0 to 23.7 billion bases.

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1Global diversification of the common moonwort ferns (Botrychium lunaria group, Ophioglossaceae) was mainly driven by Pleistocene climatic shifts (Annals of botany 2025) (PMID 39798082)SRC-DSC-A3F0494D31
2Botrychium lunaria (common moonwort): Go BotanySRC-DSC-CD7829C746
3Transcriptome-wide SNPs for Botrychium lunaria ferns enable fine-grained analysis of ploidy and population structure (Molecular ecology resources 2022) (PMID 34310066)SRC-DSC-87450AC1C7
4Biotic and abiotic factors shape arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associated with the roots of the widespread fern Botrychium lunaria (Ophioglossaceae) (Environmental microbiology reports 2020) (PMID 32216046)SRC-DSC-63DDAF6076

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