About African Spleenwort
Asplenium aethiopicum is a lithophytic or sometimes epiphytic species of fern found in Southern and tropical Africa, tropical America, Asia and Australia. It is listed as critically endangered in Victoria, Australia. It is considered exotic in New Zealand.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Asplenium aethiopicum
- Genus
- Asplenium
- Family
- ASPLENIACEAE
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Tropical America, Polynesia, Cape Colony, Abyssinia, Canary Islands
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Botanical family
Aspleniaceae
SPLEENWORTS FAMILY
African Spleenwort belongs to the Aspleniaceae family.
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