Asplenium marinum

Asplenium marinum is a fern known as the sea spleenwort because of its preference for maritime habitats. Located around the coasts of Europe from Italy in the South to Norway in the North,[1] its most Southern distribution extends to the Northern islands of Tunisia (Galitte islands).[2]

Sea spleenwort
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species:
A. marinum
Binomial name
Asplenium marinum

Linnaeus was the first to describe sea spleenwort with the binomial Asplenium marinum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.[3]

References

  1. "Asplenium marinum (Sea Spleenwort)". Retrieved 2012-02-22.
  2. Michel Muracciole, Michel Jean Delaugerre, Daniel Pavon (January 2010). "Asplenium marinum L., une fougère nouvelle pour la flore de Tunisie". Poiretia, revue naturaliste du maghreb. 2. ISSN 2105-0503.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species Plantarum. Vol. II (1st ed.). Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii. p. 1081.
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