Asplenium L.

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Name scientific

Asplenium L., Sp. Pl. 1078 (1753)

Preferred name

Asplenium L.

Taxonomy reference

Kramer, K.U.; Green, P.S. 1990: Pteridophytes and gymnosperms. Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 1. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Linked name

Asplenium

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Authors

Publication place

Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.

Year published

1753

Publication page

1078

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Asplenium L.

Type taxon

Asplenium marinum L.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Asplenium

Etymology

From the Greek a (without) and splen (spleen), a reference to the supposed medicinal properties of these plants in reducing an enlarged spleen.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Aspleniaceae

Genus

Asplenium

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

spleenwort

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Asplenium L.

Description

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.

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Pleurosorus Fée

Description

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.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Asplenium L.

Description

n = 53–57 univalents + 57–62 bivalents + 12–13 trivalents

Description

n = 64 univalents + 71 bivalents + 9 trivalents

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Phyllitis Hill

Description

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.