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Asplenium marinum

Asplenium marinum is a fern known as the sea spleenwort because of its preference for maritime habitats. Located around the coasts of Europe from Italy in the South to Norway in the North, its most Southern distribution extends to the Northern islands of Tunisia.

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Sea spleenwort
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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. marinum
Binomial name
Asplenium marinum

Asplenium marinum is a fern known as the sea spleenwort because of its preference for maritime habitats. Located around the coasts of Europe from Italy in the South to Norway in the North,1 its most Southern distribution extends to the Northern islands of Tunisia (Galitte islands).2

Linnaeus was the first to describe sea spleenwort with the binomial Asplenium marinum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.3

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References

  1. "Asplenium marinum (Sea Spleenwort)". Retrieved 2012-02-22.
  2. Muracciole, Michel; Delaugerre, Michel Jean; Pavon, Daniel (January 2010). "Asplenium marinum L., une fougère nouvelle pour la flore de Tunisie". Poiretia, revue naturaliste du maghreb. 2. ISSN 2105-0503.
  3. Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species Plantarum. Vol. II (1st ed.). Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii. p. 1081.
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