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Asplenium monanthes
Also called Single Sorus Spleenwort
Asplenium monanthes is a small, tufted fern that grows on rock faces, cliffs, walls and tree trunks in warm, humid places. The key to growing it is bright, humid conditions with a well-drained, gritty root zone that is never waterlogged.
Asplenium monanthes, the single-sorus spleenwort, is a fern native to parts of Africa, islands in the Atlantic, the Americas and Hawaii. It belongs to the family Aspleniaceae.
Asplenium monanthes displays a scattered distribution. In the United States, it occurs in the southern states of Arizona, North and South Carolina, Alabama and Florida, plus Hawaii. In the Caribbean, it inhabits the islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola. In Mexico it occurs nearly throughout, though not in the Yucatan Peninsula. In Central America, it is found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. In South America, it inhabits Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. In Africa, it is found in Cameroon, Rwanda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho and Madagascar. The spleenwort also appears in the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Bioko, Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplenium monanthes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
