Asplenium aethiopicum
Species of flowering plant
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Asplenium aethiopicum is a lithophytic or sometimes epiphytic species 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 | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
| Family: | Aspleniaceae |
| Genus: | Asplenium |
| Species: | A. aethiopicum |
| Binomial name | |
| Asplenium aethiopicum (Burm.f.) Bech. | |
| Subspecies[2] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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subsp. aethiopicum
subsp. filare
subsp. tripinnatum
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Taxonomy
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]