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Brackenferns Pteridium

Every rated Pteridium record is keep-away — 2 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 50 evidence rows from 13 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Pteridium Pteridium Keep away Limited evidence 3 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Keep away

1 species

Bracken Fern Keep away Pteridium esculentum Limited evidence · 20 sources genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

1 species

Pteridium aquilinum Awaiting evidence Pteridium aquilinum Limited evidence · 27 sources genus-level claims ↑

About brackenferns

Corpus context. Pteridium is the directory's #349 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 50 evidence rows from 13 cited sources, recorded as perennial . Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Pteridium: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

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