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]
| Sea spleenwort | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
| Family: | Aspleniaceae |
| Genus: | Asplenium |
| Species: | A. marinum
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| Binomial name | |
| Asplenium marinum | |
Linnaeus was the first to describe sea spleenwort with the binomial Asplenium marinum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Asplenium marinum (Sea Spleenwort)". Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- ^ Michel Muracciole, Michel Jean Delaugerre, Daniel Pavon (January 2010). "Asplenium marinum L., une fougère nouvelle pour la flore de Tunisie". Poiretia, revue naturaliste du maghreb. 2. ISSN 2105-0503.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species Plantarum. Vol. II (1st ed.). Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii. p. 1081.
External links
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