Family: Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 1078 (1753).
Derivation: Greek asplenon, name of a fern considered to be a cure for diseases of the spleen; from a-, without; splen, spleen.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Spleenworts.
Description:
Rhizome short, erect or creeping, clad in clathrate scales; fronds simple, pinnate or decompound, small to very large; soft oblong, oblique to the midrib of the pinnule, covered by an indusium at least when young.
Distribution:
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Cosmopolitan; about 650 species.
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Biology:
No text
Key to Species:
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1. Sori close to the margin; pinnae lanceolate |
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A. bulbiferum 1. |
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1. Sori away from the margin; pinnae flabellate-cuneate or suborbicular-oblong |
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2. Pinnae flabellate-cuneate; rhachis greenish, usually elongating well beyond the pinnae and often proliferous at its tip |
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A. flabellifolium 2. |
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2. Pinnae suborbicular-oblong; rhachis a dark purplish black, terminated by a pinnule |
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A. trichomanes 3. |
Author:
Not yet available
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Image source: fig. 17i in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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