Asplenium daucifolium

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Asplenium daucifolium
Asplenium daucifolium - Berlin Botanical Garden - IMG 8708.JPG
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species:
A. daucifolium
Binomial name
Asplenium daucifolium

Asplenium daucifolium (common name Mauritius spleenwort) is a species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae, endemic to the Mascarene Islands.

Taxonomy

A global phylogeny of Asplenium published in 2020 divided the genus into eleven clades, [1] which were given informal names pending further taxonomic study. A. daucifolium belongs to the "Neottopteris clade", members of which generally have somewhat leathery leaf tissue. It formed a clade with A. mauritiensis . [2]

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