- Family: Aspleniaceae Newman
- Genus: Asplenium L.
Asplenium laciniatum D.Don
- Genus: Asplenium L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Kenya to S. Africa, N. Yemen, Indian Subcontinent to Japan and Indo-China.
[FTEA]
Aspleniaceae, Henk Beentje. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008
- Type
- Type: Nepal, on rocks, local name ‘Dawecow’, 1818, Wallich s.n. (K!, holo.)
- Habit
- Lithophyte or low epiphyte.
- Rhizomes
- Rhizome erect, 2–9 mm diameter, with dark brown clathrate-lanceolate attenuate subentire rhizome scales up to 3 mm long.
- Leaves
- Fronds tufted, erect or arching, not proliferous, herbaceous.
- Stipes
- Stipe greyish-green when dried, becoming dark brown at the base, 1–13 cm long, with scattered subulate dark brown weakly pseudoserrate scales up to 2 mm long.
- Leaf lamina
- Lamina narrowly elliptic in outline, 5–23 × 1.5–5 cm, 2-pinnatifid to 2-pinnatisect, basal 2–3 pairs slightly reduced.
- Pinnae
- Pinna up to 10 pairs, to 3 × 1.3 cm, pinnules and pinnule lobes obovate or spatulate, the basal acroscopic lobe usually free, up to 6 mm long, sharply dentate to shallowly incised on the outer margin, glabrous above, subglabrous beneath.
- Rachis
- Rachis greyishgreen when dried with narrow wings, glabrous.
- Sori
- Sori 2–5 per lobe, linear to oval, 2–4 mm.
- Indusium
- Indusium linear, almost transparent, erose, 0.3–0.5 mm wide.
- Figures
- Fig. 10: 1–2, p. 62.
Native to:
Assam, Cape Provinces, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Free State, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Manchuria, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zimbabwe
- Asplenium laciniatum nothosubsp. chasei (Viane & Reichst.) Fraser-Jenk., Pangtey & Khullar
- Asplenium laciniatum subsp. fraser-jenkinsii Reichst. ex Pangtey & Khullar
- Asplenium laciniatum nothosubsp. hopei (Viane & Reichst.) Fraser-Jenk., Pangtey & Khullar
- Asplenium laciniatum subsp. kukkonenii (Viane & Reichst.) Fraser-Jenk.
- Asplenium laciniatum nothosubsp. laciniocaule Z.R.Wang & W.M.Chu ex Fraser-Jenk., Pangtey & Khul
- Asplenium laciniatum subsp. tenuicaule (Hayata) Fraser-Jenk.
- Asplenium laciniatum subsp. xianchunii Fraser-Jenk.
- Asplenium depauperatum Wall.
- Asplenium fimbriatum Kunze
- Asplenium kansuense Ching
- Asplenium lankongense Ching
- Asplenium mae Viane & Reichst.
- Asplenium neovarians Ching
- Asplenium parvulum Wall.
- Asplenium paucijugum Ching
- Asplenium propinquum Ching
- Asplenium ruta Wall.
- Asplenium varians Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.
- Asplenium varians var. fimbriatum (Kunze) Viane
- Chamaefilix parvula Farw.
- Tarachia laciniata (D.Don) H.Itô
Asplenium laciniatum D.Don appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Namba, T. [s.n.], Taiwan | K000812088 | |||
| Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 234], Nepal | Asplenium depauperatum | K001109598 | ||
| s.coll. [Cat. no. 2207] | Asplenium parvulum | K001115413 | ||
| Jan 1, 1972 | Wallich [s.n.], Nepal | Asplenium varians | K000512907 | Unknown type material |
| Gueinzius [s.n.], South Africa | Asplenium varians | K000423960 | ||
| Rawson, R.W. [s.n.], South Africa | Asplenium varians | K000423961 | ||
| Rawson, R.W. [s.n.], South Africa | Asplenium varians | K000423962 |
First published in Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 8 (1825)
Accepted by
- Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & Kandel, D.R. (2019). Ferns and Fern-Allies of Nepal 2: 1-446. Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Department of Plant Resources.
- Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2017). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 1: 1-562. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
Not accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Asplenium varians.]
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Retief, E. & Meyer, N.L. (2017). Plants of the Free State inventory and identification guide Strelitzia 38: 1-1236. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Roux, J.P. (2016). The Lycopods and Ferns of Drakensberg and Lesotho: 1-384. Briza academic books, Pretoria, South Africa.
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