Asplenium serratum
Species of fern in the spleenwort family
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Asplenium serratum, the bird's nest spleenwort, wild birdnest fern, or New World birdnest fern, is a fern of the New World/Americas.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
| Family: | Aspleniaceae |
| Genus: | Asplenium |
| Species: | A. serratum |
| Binomial name | |
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Distribution
Asplenium serratum is native to the tropical Americas, from southern Mexico to Central America, the Caribbean, Florida, northern and western South America, Brazil, and Paraguay to northeastern Argentina.[1] It is rare in central and southern Florida, where it is a state-listed endangered species.[2][3]
Description
Asplenium serratum is an epiphytic or lithophytic fern that grows on eroded limestone, tree trunks, rotting stumps, and fallen logs.[4][3]
Taxonomy
Linnaeus was the first to describe American bird's-nest fern with the binomial Asplenium serratum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.[5]
