English name: Oak Fern
Gaelic name: Sgeamh Dharaich

Synonym: Thelypteris dryopteris

Atlas of Ferns:
Pre 1950 records: NG55, 62.
Post 1950 records: NG24, 26, 42, 45, 50-54, 60, 61, 72.

British Pteridophyte Records:
BPS Bulletin Volume 2, Number 1, (1979): NG46 C. W. Murray.
The Fern Gazette Volume 12, Part 5, (1983): NG34, 71 H. J. B. Birks, NG54 A. McG. Stirling.

Botanist in Skye: NG24, 26, 34, 42, 45, 46, 50-54, 60, 61, 71, 72.

New Atlas:
1950-1969: NG24, 45, 51, 52, 60.  
1970-1986: NG23, 26, 34, 46, 61.  
1987-1999: NG42, 50, 71, 72.

Altitude distribution on Skye
Minimum: 75m.
Maximum: 550m.

Gymnocarpium dryopteris is a widespread but localised fern found normally at altitudes above 450m other ferns that may be present are Blechnum spicant, Dryopteris oreades, Athyrium filix-femina and Oreopteris limbosperma.

In Rodwell (ed.) (1992) it occurs in the U16a community and in Birks (1973) it occurs in the Luzula sylvatica-Vaccinium myrtillus Association.