English name: Narrow Buckler-fern
Gaelic name: Raineach Chaol

Synonyms: Dryopteris lanceolatocristata; Dryopteris spinulosa

Atlas of Ferns:
Pre 1950 record: NG44.
Post 1950 records: NG41, 47, 61, 72.

British Pteridophyte Records:
BPS Bulletin Volume 2, Number 1, (1979): NG54 C. W. Murray.
The Fern Gazette Volume 12, Part 5, (1983): NG25, 37 H. J. B. Birks.

Botanist in Skye: NG25, 37, 44, 53, 61, 72.

New Atlas:
1950-1969: NG37, 47, 72.
1970-1986: NG25.
1987-1999: NG61.

Rare but possibly under recorded.

Dryopteris carthusiana is rare on Skye. In Rodwell (ed.) (1991) it occurs as a minor component of the W4b community however although this community has been recorded from several places in southern Skye D. carthusiana has not been recorded inn any of the vegetational relevés I have seen.