Asplenium lobulatum
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Aspleniaceae
- Genus: Asplenium L.
- Species: Asplenium lobulatum Mett.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 14-XI-2016
- Collection Number: 4438
- Primary collector: M. Sundue & H. Maraia
- Collected by: Irene Engilis, Alan Hitch, Ed de Vogel, John Trochet, Nittya Semard, Allen Allison, Raymon Joshua, Kore Maraia, Dabio, Alois Gambia
- Determined by: D. Ohlsen (MEL)
- Habitat: Castanopsis forest
- Habit: Epiphyte
- Specimen locations: LAE, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Wild Dog Camp - former site of SINIVIT Wild Dog Mine
- Country: Papua New Guinea
- State or Province: East New Britain
- Coordinates: -4.626160,152.044060
- Elevation: 1355 m
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
is this proliferous? If so, that’s not consistent with Asplenium polyodon from Australia and New Zealand. Has a bit of a look of Asplenium lobulatum about it. You might like to check it by Daniel O.
Thanks for the comment Leon! I agree that this name is over applied and that there is perhaps a better name to apply here. This collection is a good match for “A. polyodon from A” illustrated in the Nakamura’s Ferns of the South Pacific Islands (2008). I will contact Daniel O and get his input next.