spleenwort
Noun
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Any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium (synset 113201432)
is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporessubtypes:
- asplenium adiantum-nigrum, black spleenwort - spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent
- asplenium platyneuron, ebony spleenwort, scott's spleenwort - common North American fern with polished black stripes
- black-stem spleenwort, black-stemmed spleenwort, little ebony spleenwort - fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
- asplenium rhizophyllum, camptosorus rhizophyllus, walking fern, walking leaf - ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip
- asplenium trichomanes, maidenhair spleenwort - small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds
- asplenium viride, green spleenwort - a small fern with slim green fronds; widely distributed in cool parts of northern hemisphere
- asplenium montanum, mountain spleenwort - a spleenwort of eastern North America
- asplenium ruta-muraria, wall rue, wall rue spleenwort - small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America
- asplenium bradleyi, bradley's spleenwort - a spleenwort of eastern to southern United States
- asplenium pinnatifidum, lobed spleenwort - a spleenwort of eastern and southern United States
- asplenium billotii, lanceolate spleenwort - a spleenwort of western Europe
belongs to: asplenium, genus asplenium - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
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