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Asplenium

spleenwort

Other common names
spleenwort fern
Synonyms
Thamnopteris
Camptosorus
see moreScolopendrium
Ceterach
Phyllitis
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Botanical details
Family
Aspleniaceae
Native to the UK
No
Potentially harmful
Genus

Asplenium

Genus description

Asplenium are evergreen ferns with short, usually erect rhizomes bearing a rosette of slightly leathery fronds which may be simple, pinnate to 3-pinnate

Name status

Correct

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