Biology:Asplenium attenuatum

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Short description: Species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae

Simple spleenwort
Fern at Woolgoolga, Australia
Scientific classification edit
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Binomial name
Asplenium attenuatum
R.Br.

Asplenium attenuatum is a plant in the spleenwort group of ferns. The habitat is rocky shaded areas in rainforest, occasionally seen growing on trees.

Two varieties are recognized are A. attenuatum var. attenuatum, with the lower third of the lamina lobed or the base pinnate, and A. attenuatum var. indivisum, with a simple unbroken frond.

This species first appeared in scientific literature in the year 1810, in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, published by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown.[1][2]

References

  1. Peter G. Wilson. "Asplenium attenuatum R.Br.". New South Wales Flora Online. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asplenium~attenuatum. Retrieved 14 December 2017. 
  2. BRIN. "Asplenium attenuatum R.Br.". Brisbane Rainforest Information and Action Network Online. http://www.brisrain.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=386. Retrieved 14 December 2017. 

Wikidata ☰ Q18069262 entry