Asplenium viride
| 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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[edit] Nomenclature
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]
[edit] Ecology
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.
[edit] References
| External identifiers for Asplenium viride | |
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| BioLib | 38285 |
| EOL | 11418026 |
| GBIF | 2650716 |
| ITIS | 17366 |
| NCBI | 147940 |
| uBio NameBank | 794151 |
| Also found in: Wikispecies | |
- ^ Carl Linnaeus (1753). Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753000802832.
- ^ W. Greuter, F. R. Barrie, H. M. Burder, W. G. Chaloner, V. Demoulin, D. L. Hawksworth, P. M. Jørgensen, D. H. Nicholson, P. C. Silva, P. Trehane & J. McNeill, ed (1994). "Article 23: Names of species". International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code). Regnum Vegetabile 131. Königstein: Koeltz Scientific Books. ISBN 3-87429-367-X.
- ^ William A. Weber & Ronald C. Wittmann (1992, revised March 11, 2000). "Catalog of the Colorado Flora: a Biodiversity Baseline" (PDF). University Press of Colorado. http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/Research/Botany/Databases/vascular_plants.pdf.
- ^ William Hudson (1798). Flora anglica (3rd ed.). R. Faulder. p. 453. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jx05AAAAMAAJ.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Asplenium viride |
- Flora of North America: Asplenium viride
- Asplenium viride Green Spleenwort, Wild Flowers of the British Isles
- Asplenium viride, Skye Flora
- Asplenium viride, Flora of Northern Ireland
