Asplenium serratum

Asplenium serratum
Conservation status
	; Apparently Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Aspleniineae
Family:	Aspleniaceae
Genus:	Asplenium
Species:	A. serratum
Binomial name
	Asplenium serratum; L.

Asplenium serratum, the bird's nest spleenwort, wild birdnest fern, or New World birdnest fern, is a fern of the New World/Americas.

Distribution[edit]

The fern is native to tropical Brazil, the Caribbean, and Florida of the Southeastern United States. It is rare in central and southern Florida, where it is a state-listed endangered species.^[1]^[2]

Asplenium serratum is an epiphytic or lithophytic fern that grows on eroded limestone, tree trunks, rotting stumps, and fallen logs.^[3]^[2]

Linnaeus was the first to describe American bird's-nest fern with the binomial Asplenium serratum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.^[4]

^ United States Department of Agriculture. "Asplenium serratum". Retrieved 2007-11-25.
^ ^a ^b Florida Natural Areas Inventory (2000). "American Bird's Nest Fern" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
^ Flora of North America. "Asplenium serratum". Retrieved 2007-11-25.
^ Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species Plantarum. Vol. II (1st ed.). Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii. p. 1079.

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