Biology:Asplenium hemionitis

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Short description: Species of fern

Asplenium hemionitis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species:
A. hemionitis
Binomial name
Asplenium hemionitis

Asplenium hemionitis is a species of fern native to Macaronesia, Northwest Africa and mainland Portugal. It inhabits humid woods and other shady areas, sometimes in uncovered slopes subject to high ocean humidity.[1][2]

Two subspecies are accepted.[3]

  • Asplenium hemionitis var. hemionitis – Algeria, Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Madeira, Morocco, and Portugal
  • Asplenium hemionitis var. longilobatum G.Kunkel – Canary Islands (La Gomera)

Linnaeus was the first to describe the species with the binomial Asplenium hemionitis in his Species Plantarum of 1753.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1295827 entry