Asplenium viride

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Species of fern in the spleenwort family

title: "Asplenium viride" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["asplenium", "ferns-of-the-united-states", "flora-of-canada", "flora-of-the-eastern-united-states", "plants-described-in-1762", "taxa-named-by-william-hudson-(botanist)"] description: "Species of fern in the spleenwort family" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplenium_viride" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Species of fern in the spleenwort family ::

| name = Green spleenwort | image = Asplenium-viride.jpg | image_caption = | status = | status_system = TNC | status_ref = | genus = Asplenium | species = viride | authority = Huds. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Asplenium_viride_280208.jpg" caption="Green spleenwort in its native habitat in Germany"] ::

Asplenium viride is a species of fern known as the green spleenwort because of its green stipes and rachides. This feature easily distinguishes it from the very similar-looking maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes.

Taxonomy

Green spleenwort was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum, under the name "Asplenium Trich. ramosum", with a type locality of "in Arvorniæ rupibus" (rocks in Caernarfonshire). Under the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, phrase names such as "Asplenium Trichomanes ramosum" are to be treated as orthographic errors – in this case, for "Asplenium ramosum". That name was later rejected in favour of William Hudson's later name Asplenium viride,{{cite journal |author1=Zimmer, B. |author2=Greuter, W. |title=Proposal to Reject the Name Asplenium ramosum L. (Pteridophyta) |journal=Taxon |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=303–304 |doi=10.2307/1222897 |jstor=1222897

A global phylogeny of Asplenium published in 2020 divided the genus into eleven clades, which were given informal names pending further taxonomic study. A. viride belongs to the "A. viride subclade" of the "A. trichomanes clade". The A. trichomanes clade has a worldwide distribution. Members of the clade grow on rocks and usually have once-pinnate leaf blades with slender, chestnut- to dark-brown stalks. The A. viride subclade, which contains only A. viride and its allopolyploid descendant A. adulterinum, is exceptional in having green stalks.

Ecology

A. viride is a native species of northern and western North America and northern Europe and Asia. It is a small rock fern, growing on calcareous rock. It is a diploid species, with n = 36, and hybridizes with Asplenium trichomanes to produce Asplenium × adulterinum, found on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

References

References

  1. (November 1, 2024). "''Asplenium viride''".
  2. Carl Linnaeus. (1753). "Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas". Impensis Laurentii Salvii.
  3. (1994). "International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code)". [[Koeltz Scientific Books]].
  4. William Hudson. (1798). "Flora anglica". R. Faulder.

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