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Asplenium daucifolium

Asplenium daucifolium is a species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae, endemic to the Mascarene Islands.

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Asplenium daucifolium
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
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A. daucifolium
Binomial name
Asplenium daucifolium

Asplenium daucifolium (common name Mauritius spleenwort) is a species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae, endemic to the Mascarene Islands.

Taxonomy

A global phylogeny of Asplenium published in 2020 divided the genus into eleven clades,1 which were given informal names pending further taxonomic study. A. daucifolium belongs to the "Neottopteris clade", members of which generally have somewhat leathery leaf tissue. It formed a clade with A. mauritiensis.2

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References

  1. Xu et al. 2020, p. 27.
  2. Xu et al. 2020, p. 32.