201.400 Asplenium L.

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Description of the genus

Epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial plants. Rhizome creeping, suberect or erect, short or long , often stoloniferous, with scales. Stipe not articulated to the rhizome; black, castaneous or greyish-green; hairless or with hairs or scales. Fronds monomorphic, widely spaced or tufted, simple to 4-pinnatifid; with or without a proliferous bud at or near the lamina apex; veins free or anastomosing at the margins. Sori linear (in ours), elongated and dorsally along a vein or shortened and near marginal; indusium narrow or rudimentary.

Derivation of name: a splen means without a spleen; it was thought that the plants could reduce an enlarged spleen.

Worldwide: c. 700 species, cosmopolitan.

Mozambique: 37 taxa.

Asplenium erectum

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech.[Agg]N,Z,T,MSDescription, Image
aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech. subsp. aethiopicum MSDescription
aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech. subsp. tripinnatum (Baker) A.F. Braithw.?Description
anisophyllum KunzeN,Z,MSDescription, Image
blastophorum Hieron.Z,MSDescription, Image
boltonii Hook. ex Brause & Hieron.N,MSDescription, Image
buettneri Hieron.MS,GIDescription, Image
ceii Pic.Serm.Z,MSDescription, Image
christii Hieron.MSDescription, Image
currorii Hook.ZDescription
dregeanum KunzeN,Z,MSDescription, Image
erectum Bory ex Willd.MSDescription, Image
formosum Willd.N,Z,MSDescription, Image
friesiorum C. Chr.Z,MSDescription, Image
gemmascens AlstonMSDescription, Image
gemmiferum Schrad.MSDescription, Image
holstii Hieron.Z,MSDescription, Image
hypomelas KuhnMSDescription, Image
inaequilaterale Willd.Z,MSDescription, Image
lividum Mett. ex KuhnZDescription, Image
lobatum Pappe & RawsonN,MSDescription, Image
lunulatum Sw.Description
mannii Hook.Z,MSDescription, Image
megalura Hieron.N,ZDescription, Image
mossambicense SchelpeMSDescription, Image
normale D. DonZDescription, Image
obscurum BlumeMSDescription, Image
pellucidum Lam. subsp. pseudohorridum (Hieron.) Schelpe?Description, Image
preussii Hieron. ex BrauseZ,MSDescription, Image
protensum Schrad.MSDescription, Image
rutifolium (P.J. Bergius) KunzeZ,T,MS,MDescription, Image
sandersonii Hook.N,Z,MSDescription, Image
simii A.F. Braithw. & SchelpeMSDescription, Image
stuhlmannii Hieron.N,Z,T,MSDescription, Image
sulcatum Lam.Z,MSDescription, Image
theciferum Humb., Bonpl. & KunthN,Z,T,MSDescription, Image
varians Wall. ex Hook. & Grev. subsp. fimbriatum (Kunze) SchelpeMSDescription, Image

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Wikipedia: Asplenium

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Asplenium.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=86, retrieved 19 March 2024

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