Asplenium auriculatum
The fleshy pale green leaves and proliferous roots help to diagnose Asplenium auriculatum. This plant was collected growing on small trees along a stream in Parque Nacional Naturaleza Las Orquideas in Antioquia, Colombia.
Asplenium sessilifolium Desv.
Collection data (M. Sundue & R. Torres, 3060 )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Aspleniaceae
- Genus: Asplenium L.
- Species: Asplenium sessilifolium Desv.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 01-III-2012
- Collection Number: 3060
- Primary collector: M. Sundue & R. Torres
- Collected by: Sundue & Torres
- Determined by: M. Sundue
- Habitat: Pine - Oak Forest
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: MEXU, VT
- Observations: Terrestrial, forming large colonies upon slopes. Stems erect, leaves proliferous.
Collection Location
- Country: Mexico
- State or Province: Oaxaca
- Municipality: Distrito Ixtlán Municipio Ixtlán de Juarez
- Coordinates: 17.3645667,-96.4392667
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!
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