| Green spleenwort | |
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| Green spleenwort | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Family: | Aspleniaceae |
| Genus: | Asplenium |
| Species: | A. viride |
| Binomial name | |
| Asplenium viride Huds. |
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Asplenium viride is known as the green spleenwort because of its green stipes and raches. This feature easily distinguishes this species from the very similar-looking maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes.
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Green spleenwort was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum, under the name "Asplenium Trich. ramosum", with a type locality of "in Arvorniæ rupibus" (rocks in Caernarfonshire).[1] Under the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, phrase names such as "Asplenium Trichomanes ramosum" are to be treated as orthographic errors – in this case, for "Asplenium ramosum".[2] That name was later rejected in favour of William Hudson's later name Asplenium viride,[3] which had a type locality of "in rupibus humidis in montibus Walliæ et in comitatibus Eboracensi et Westmorlandico" (damp rocks in the mountains of Wales, Yorkshire and Westmorland).[4]
A. viride is a native species of northern and western North America and northern Europe and Asia. It is a small rock fern, growing on calcareous rock. It is a diploid species, with n = 36, and hybridizes with Asplenium trichomanes to produce Asplenium × adulterinum, found on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
| External identifiers for Asplenium viride | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 11418026 |
| GBIF | 2650716 |
| ITIS | 17366 |
| NCBI | 147940 |
| Also found in: Wikispecies | |
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