201.400 Asplenium
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Description of the genus
Epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial plants. Rhizome creeping, suberect or erect, short or long , often stoloniferous, with scales. Stipe not articulated to the rhizome; black, castaneous or greyish-green; hairless or with hairs or scales. Fronds monomorphic, widely spaced or tufted, simple to 4-pinnatifid; with or without a proliferous bud at or near the lamina apex; veins free or anastomosing at the margins. Sori linear (in ours), elongated and dorsally along a vein or shortened and near marginal; indusium narrow or rudimentary. Derivation of name: a splen means without a spleen; it was thought that the plants could reduce an enlarged spleen. Worldwide: c. 700 species, cosmopolitan. Zambia: 21 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech. [Agg] | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech. subsp. dodecaploideum A.F. Braithw. | Description | |
| aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech. subsp. filare (Forssk.) A.F. Braithw. | Description | |
| blastophorum Hieron. | W,C,S | Description, Image |
| boltonii Hook. ex Brause & Hieron. | N | Description, Image |
| buettneri Hieron. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| chaseanum Schelpe | N | Description |
| dregeanum Kunze | N,E | Description, Image |
| erectum Bory ex Willd. | N | Description, Image |
| formosum Willd. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| friesiorum C. Chr. | N | Description, Image |
| inaequilaterale Willd. | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| lividum Mett. ex Kuhn | ? | Description, Image |
| mannii Hook. | N,E | Description, Image |
| megalura Hieron. | N,E | Description, Image |
| monanthes L. | Description, Image | |
| protensum Schrad. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| pumilum Sw. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| sebungweense J.E. Burrows | ? | Description |
| stuhlmannii Hieron. | W,C | Description, Image |
| theciferum Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth | N,W,C | Description, Image |
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