English name: Royal Fern
Gaelic name: Raineach Riòghail

Atlas of Ferns:
Pre 1950 records: NG41, 63, 64. 
Post 1950 records: NG15, 26, 42, 50, 51, 61, 62, 72. 

British Pteridophyte Records:
BPS Bulletin Volume 2, Number 1, (1979): NG33, 52 I. Borag.
The Fern Gazette Volume 12, Part 5, (1983): NG24, 35, 41, 43 C W Murray.

Botanist in Skye: NG15, 26, 33, 37, 42, 50-52, 60-62, 72.
                          Planted in NG24, NG35, NG43.

New Atlas: 
Native
1950-1969: NG42, 50.
1970-1986: NG26, 33, 47, 52, 61.

Alien
1970-1986: NG35, 43.
1987-1999: NG24.

Found on the edges of lochs, rocky stream banks and ledges on sea cliffs. It is often badly grazed by deer.

In Rodwell (ed.) (1991a) it occurs as a minor component in the W5 community, however this community has not been recorded on Skye. In Birks (1973) it is recorded in the Luzula sylvatica-Silene dioica association.