Asplenium serratum
{{short description|Species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae}}
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Asplenium serratum, the bird's nest spleenwort, wild birdnest fern, or New World birdnest fern, is a fern of the New World/Americas.
Distribution
The fern is native to tropical Brazil, the Caribbean, and Florida of the Southeastern United States. It is rare in central and southern Florida, where it is a state-listed endangered species.{{cite web|author=United States Department of Agriculture|url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ASSE9|title=Asplenium serratum|access-date=2007-11-25}}{{cite web|author=Florida Natural Areas Inventory |year=2000 |url=http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Asplenium_serratum.pdf |title=American Bird's Nest Fern |accessdate=2007-11-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524201732/http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Asplenium_serratum.pdf |archivedate=2011-05-24 }}
Description
Asplenium serratum is an epiphytic or lithophytic fern that grows on eroded limestone, tree trunks, rotting stumps, and fallen logs.{{cite web|author=Flora of North America|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500200|title=Asplenium serratum|accessdate=2007-11-25}}{{cite web|author=Florida Natural Areas Inventory |year=2000 |url=http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Asplenium_serratum.pdf |title=American Bird's Nest Fern |accessdate=2007-11-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524201732/http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Asplenium_serratum.pdf |archivedate=2011-05-24 }}
Taxonomy
Linnaeus was the first to describe American bird's-nest fern with the binomial Asplenium serratum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.{{cite book | title=Species Plantarum | edition=1st | volume=II | last=Linnaeus | first=C. | authorlink=Carl Linnaeus | year=1753 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Stockholm | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359100|page=1079}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500200 Flora of North America: Asplenium serratum]
- [https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ASSE9 USDA Plants Profile for Asplenium serratum (wild birdnest fern)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060831054152/http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~scofield/sofl_plants/fern_asplenium_serratum.html Miami.edu: Asplenium serratum photos]
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Category:Ferns of the Americas
Category:Ferns of the United States
Category:Flora of the Caribbean
Category:Plants described in 1753
Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Category:Least concern flora of the United States
Category:Least concern biota of North America
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