Aspleniaceae
Spleenworts Family
The Aspleniaceae family (Spleenworts Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Polypodiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 3 species. Its members are predominantly herbs. Several members are valued in traditional medicine.
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Once- or twice-divided fronds growing in a tuft from a short, scaly rhizome, several species clinging to rock crevices or tree bark; narrow, elongated spore clusters run alongside the frond's veins rather than forming round dots.
As true ferns this family has no flowers or seeds — its narrow, vein-hugging sori, rather than round dots, are the clearest way to separate it from most other fern families.
Which Aspleniaceae species is this?
Answer what you can see and narrow it down to a single Aspleniaceae species.
To check whether a plant belongs to Aspleniaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
Learn the full family-identification methodNotable members
Families that can look similar
Pteridaceae
Compare against Pteridaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare PteridaceaePolypodiaceae
Compare against Polypodiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare PolypodiaceaeDryopteridaceae
Compare against Dryopteridaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare DryopteridaceaeThelypteridaceae
Compare against Thelypteridaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare ThelypteridaceaeAll 3 species in ASPLENIACEAE
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