English name: Lemon-scented Fern
Gaelic name: Raineach Moire, Raineach an Fhàile

Synonym: Thelypteris oreopteris

Atlas of Ferns:
Pre 1950 record: NG41.
Post 1950 records: Recorded in all other hectads.

British Pteridophyte Records:
The Fern Gazette Volume 12, Part 5, (1983): NG36, 41, 56 C. W. Murray.

Botanist in Skye: Recorded in all hectads.

New Atlas:
1950-1969: NG34.
1970-1986: NG37.
1987-1999: Recorded in all other hectads. 

Altitude distribution on Skye
Minimum: 15m.
Maximum: 365m.

Very common. At lower altitudes normally in association with Blechnum spicant.

Oreopteris limbosperma occurs with B. spicant and P. aquilinum in the dampest areas in Festuca ovina grassland.

On peaty soils on banks, especially alongside burns and ditches it occurs with B. spicant with occasional D. dilatata and A. filix-femina and on drier ground P. aquilinum (this is the U19 community).

In Rodwell (ed.) (1992) it occurs in the CG10b, CG11b, U16a, U17d and U19 communities. In Birks (1973) it occurs in the Juncus acutiflorus-Filipendula ulmaria, Alchemilla alpina-Vaccinium myrtillus, Callunetum vulgaris, Vaccineto-Callunetum hepaticosum, Luzula sylvatica-Vaccinium myrtillus, Luzula sylvatica-Silene dioica, Betula pubescens-Cirsium heterophyllum, Sedum rosea-Alchemilla glabra, Betula pubescens-Vaccinium myrtillus and Corylus avellana-Oxalis acetosella Associations.