English name: Hay-scented Buckler-fern
Gaelic name: Raineach Phreasach

Atlas of Ferns:
Post 1950 records: NG14, 24, 26, 32, 33, 37, 41, 47, 50-53, 61, 62, 71, 72.

British Pteridophyte Records:
BPS Bulletin Volume 2, Number 1, (1979): NG54 C. W. Murray.
The Fern Gazette Volume 12, Part 5, (1983): NG43, 46 C. W. Murray, NG60 H. J. B. Birks.

Botanist in Skye: NG14, 24, 26, 32, 33, 37, 41, 43.

New Atlas:
1950-1969: NG14, 24, 32, 33, 37, 50, 62.
1970-1986: NG26, 43, 46, 60.
1987-1999: NM59, NG47, 51, 52, 61, 71, 72. 

Altitude distribution on Skye
Minimum: 22m.
Maximum: 80m.

Dryopteris aemula is found in woods and shady rocks at altitudes from sea level to around 100m where it occurs frequently with Blechnum spicant, Dryopteris affinis, D. dilatata, D. filix-mas and Oreopteris limbosperma and occasionally Gymnocarpium dryopteris and Phegopteris connectilis. In Rodwell (ed.) (1991) it occurs in the W17a community. In Birks (1973) it occurs in the Luzula sylvatica-Vaccinium myrtillus, Luzula sylvatica-Silene dioica, Betula pubescens-Vaccinium myrtillus and Corylus avellana-Oxalis acetosella Associations.