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Egyptian spleenwort

Asplenium aethiopicum

Also called Spleenwort, African Spleenwort, Ethiopian Spleenwort, Forked Spleenwort, Shredded Spleenwort

Egyptian spleenwort
Photo: Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0
Family
Aspleniaceae (Spleenwort family)
Grows as
Fern, Epiphyte
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Old World to Pacific
Climate
wet tropical

About

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

Other Asplenium plants

Black spleenwort · Asplenium aequibasis · Asplenium anceps · Bird’s Nest Fern · Asplenium appendiculatum · Asplenium arcanum · Fern · Asplenium attenuatum · Eared Spleenwort · Bird's Nest Fern · Azorean Spleenwort · Asplenium bifrons

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplenium aethiopicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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