Asplenium L.
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Asplenium L., Sp. Pl. 1078 (1753)
Asplenium L.
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
1078
ICN
Asplenium L.
genus
Asplenium
Classification
Subordinates
- Asplenium ×canterburiense
- Asplenium ×lucrosum
- Asplenium adiantoides
- Asplenium adiantoides
- Asplenium aethiopicum
- Asplenium angustifolium
- Asplenium anomodum
- Asplenium antiquum
- Asplenium apice-dentatum
- Asplenium appendiculatum
- Asplenium aucklandicum
- Asplenium australasicum
- Asplenium australe
- Asplenium australe
- Asplenium brownii
- Asplenium bulbiferum
- Asplenium bulbiferum × Asplenium obtusatum
- Asplenium bulbiferum G.Forst. (1786) × Asplenium flaccidum G.Forst. subsp. flaccidum
- Asplenium bulbiferum G.Forst. × Asplenium cimmeriorum
- Asplenium caudatum
- Asplenium chathamense
- Asplenium cimmeriorum
- Asplenium colensoi
- Asplenium decurrens
- Asplenium difforme
- Asplenium dimorphum
- Asplenium durvillei
- Asplenium esculentum
- Asplenium flabellifolium
- Asplenium flaccidum
- Asplenium flexuosum
- Asplenium forsterianum
- Asplenium gibberosum
- Asplenium gracillimum
- Asplenium haurakiense
- Asplenium heterophyllum
- Asplenium hookerianum
- Asplenium japonicum
- Asplenium japonicum
- Asplenium lamprophyllum
- Asplenium laxum
- Asplenium lepidotum
- Asplenium leptophyllum
- Asplenium lucidum
- Asplenium lyallii
- Asplenium 'Maori Princess'
- Asplenium marinum
- Asplenium nidus
- Asplenium niponicum
- Asplenium northlandicum
- Asplenium obliquum
- Asplenium oblongifolium
- Asplenium obtusatum
- Asplenium odontites
- Asplenium ornatum
- Asplenium otophorum
- Asplenium pauperequitum
- Asplenium petersenii
- Asplenium plantagineum
- Asplenium plantaginifolium
- Asplenium polyodon
- Asplenium procerum
- Asplenium ramosum
- Asplenium ramosum
- Asplenium raoulii
- Asplenium richardii
- Asplenium rotundifolium
- Asplenium sarmentosum
- Asplenium scleroprium
- Asplenium scolopendrium
- Asplenium shuttleworthianum
- Asplenium subglandulosum
- Asplenium symmetricum
- Asplenium terrestre
- Asplenium tremulum
- Asplenium trichomanes
- Asplenium triste
- Asplenium umbrosum
Vernacular names
Synonyms
Descriptions
Asplenium L.
Indusium well-developed; sporangia and sori as in family. Rhizome short, ascending; stipites clustered; paleae us. conspicuous, hairs us. present. Fronds pinnate to decompound, rarely simple; lamina us. firm to coriac.; veins free or with occ. anastomoses. A subcosmopolitan genus with over 650 spp.
Sori elongate along veinlets, exindusiate; sporangia stalked; annulus vertical, incomplete; spores bilateral, dark. Rhizome short, with narrow dark clathrate paleae; stipites tufted, paleate; lamina pinnate; veinlets with numerous forks. Small terrestrial ferns of a few, rather ill-defined spp. of Chile, Australia, N.Z., and one of Spain and Morocco.
Asplenium L.
n = 53–57 univalents + 57–62 bivalents + 12–13 trivalents
n = 64 univalents + 71 bivalents + 9 trivalents
Terrestrial ferns. Rhizomes short, bearing clathrate scales. Fronds entire or slightly lobed, scaly at least on stipes; veins free. Sori elongated along adjacent veins in pairs; sori of neighbouring veins close, parallel, and appearing at maturity like a single sorus. Indusia elongated, overlying sori, attached to lamina along one edge, those covering a pair of sori opening towards each other. Spores monolete.
Taxonomic concepts
Scolopendrium
Asplenium L.
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Etymology
From the Greek a (without) and splen (spleen), a reference to the supposed medicinal properties of these plants in reducing an enlarged spleen.
Metadata
cc6d7707-d636-4783-a389-5baf3b211071
scientific name
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1 January 2000
23 March 2018