Dryopteris affinis

Ssp affinis: Aslanyatağı; Ssp borreri: Geyik piluncu; Ssp coriacea: Koyun piluncu; Ssp pontica: Sığır piluncu

Resembles D. filix-mas but differs in fronds persistent during winter, petiole and rachis with dense reddish or brown scales, rachis greenish black, pinnules usually rather truncate with small teeth at the apex only, indusium covering sporangia when young. Spores ripe 6-10. In deciduous forest and under shady rocks, 500-1650 m.

Ssp borreri

Resembles D. filix-mas but differs in fronds persistent during winter, petiole and rachis with dense reddish or brown scales, rachis greenish  black, pinnules usually rather truncate with small teeth at the apex only, indusium covering sporangia when young. Spores ripe 6-10. In deciduous forest and under shady rocks, 500-1650 m.

Ssp affinis var. disjuncta

Similar to var. affinis of Atlantic Europe but larger and laxer with more spreading fronds; pinnae more widely separated; pinnules rather long, narrowed above base, thus becoming separated from each other by up to 2 mm, their apices obtuse-truncate with acute teeth.

subsp. coriacea

Fronds erect; petiole short, clothed with dense, usually narrowly lanceolate, shining scales with usually black bases and brownish tips; lamina strongly narrowed towards base, coriaceous. dull green above. Pinnules contIguous, completely separated only at base of lowest pinnae. otherwise connate for C. 1/4 of their length. strongly rectangular. with parallel unlobed margins, apex truncate or rotund-truncate with a few short. broad teeth. Indusium thick. yellowish-brown, clasping sorus, slightly gaping at maturity and breaking into several segments.