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Asplenium marinum
Asplenium marinum is a fern in the spleenwort genus Asplenium, known as the sea spleenwort because of its preference for maritime habitats. It occurs around the Atlantic Ocean coasts of western Europe and northwest Africa from southwest Norway west to Ireland and south to Morocco, and the coasts of the western Mediterranean Sea east to the Galite Islands of Tunisia, and Malta. In Britain, it is most common on western coasts, and is absent in the southeast between Yorkshire and Sussex.
It is an evergreen fern with dark green pinnate fronds 8–50 cm long, with a thick, slightly leathery texture; the pinnae are 1.5–4 cm long. It grown on sea cliffs, usually in crevices, often within the salt water spray zone; only very rarely inland, and inland plants rarely lasting long.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplenium marinum 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.
