'Rarest fern in Europe' discovered in Ireland
by Patrick Barkham from on (#58SM5)
Variety has only ever been found in Caribbean more than 4,000 miles across Atlantic
Europe's rarest fern has been discovered in Killarney, Ireland, leaving botanists baffled over how it remained undetected for so long.
The neotropical fern, Stenogrammitis myosuroides, has only ever previously been found in the mountainous cloud forests of Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic - more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic.
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