Biology:Asplenium aethiopicum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Asplenium aethiopicum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species:
A. aethiopicum
Binomial name
Asplenium aethiopicum
(Burm.f.) Bech.
Subspecies[1]
  • (Baker) A.F.Braithw.
  • Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. filare Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. aethiopicum
  • (Forssk.) A.F.Braithw. Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. tripinnatum
Synonyms[1]
  • Asplenium nigricans L.
  • (Kunze) C.Presl Trichomanes aethiopicum
  • Alston Burm.f.
  • Asplenium lanceolatum Forssk.
  • Asplenium adiantoides (L.) Lam.
  • Retz. Thunb.
  • Schkuhr Gaudich.
  • B.Heyne Hook. & Grev.
  • Kunze C.Presl
  • (Thunb.) T.Moore Bonap.
  • Tarachia furcata Asplenium vinsonii
  • Chamaefilix adiantoides Asplenium denticulatum
  • Asplenium tripartitum Asplenium furcatum f. platyphyllum
  • Asplenium dentex (Thunb.) C.Presl
  • Cordem. (L.) Farw.
  • Tarachia furcata var. platyphylla Asplenium falsum
  • Asplenium furcatum Asplenium fragrans
  • Asplenium cultratum Blume
  • Blume Kunze
  • Kunze C.Presl
  • (L.) [[Biography:Carl Christensen (botanist)|C.Chr.]] (L.) Nakai ex Tuyama
  • Tarachia adiantoides Asplenium praemorsum var. angustitripinnatum
  • W.J.Rob. Asplenium praemorsum var. furcatum
  • Asplenium adiantoides Tarachia nigricans
  • Asplenium rhipidoneuron Asplenium aemilii-guineae
  • Trichomanes adiantoides Asplenium hirsutum
  • Asplenium cuneatum Tarachia browniana
  • (Forssk.) Alston Forssk.
  • Chamaefilix filaris Acrostichum filare
  • (Forssk.) Farw. Asplenium filare
  • Panigrahi Baker
  • Asplenium tripinnatum Asplenium furcatum var. tripinnatum
  • (Baker) Panigrahi Asplenium tetraploideum

Asplenium aethiopicum is a lithophytic or sometimes epiphytic species of fern found in Southern and tropical Africa, tropical America, Asia and Australia.[2][3][4] It is listed as critically endangered in Victoria, Australia.[4] It is considered exotic in New Zealand.[5]

Taxonomy

Asplenium aethiopicum was originally published under the name Trichomanes aethiopicum by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768.[2] In 1935 Alfred Becherer moved this taxon to the genus Asplenium creating the name Asplenium aethiopicum.[2]

References

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