Asplenium aethiopicum is a lithophytic or sometimes epiphyticspecies of fern found in Southern and tropical Africa, tropical America, Asia and Australia.[3][4][5] It is listed as critically endangered in Victoria, Australia.[5] It is considered exotic in New Zealand.[6]
Asplenium aethiopicum was originally published under the name Trichomanes aethiopicum by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768.[3] In 1935 Alfred Becherer moved this taxon to the genus Asplenium creating the name Asplenium aethiopicum.[3]