Asplenium serratum

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Asplenium serratum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species:
A. serratum
Binomial name
Asplenium serratum
L.

Asplenium serratum, the bird's nest spleenwort, wild birdnest fern, or New World birdnest fern, is a fern of the New World/Americas.

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Distribution

The fern is native to tropical Brazil, the Caribbean, and Florida of the Southeastern United States. It is rare in central and southern Florida, where it is a state-listed endangered species. [1] [2]

Description

Asplenium serratum is an epiphytic or lithophytic fern that grows on eroded limestone, tree trunks, rotting stumps, and fallen logs. [3] [2]

Taxonomy

Linnaeus was the first to describe American bird's-nest fern with the binomial Asplenium serratum in his Species Plantarum of 1753. [4]

References

  1. ↑ United States Department of Agriculture. "Asplenium serratum" . Retrieved 2007-11-25.
  2. 1 2 Florida Natural Areas Inventory (2000). "American Bird's Nest Fern" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
  3. ↑ Flora of North America. "Asplenium serratum" . Retrieved 2007-11-25.
  4. ↑ Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species Plantarum. Vol. II (1st ed.). Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii. p. 1079.


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