Asplenium auritum Sw.

Species

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Characteristics

Roots proliferous. Stems erect, unbranched; scales brown throughout, broadly linear, 1--2 × 0.7--1.1 mm, margins shallowly and widely dentate. Leaves monomorphic. Petiole green to black, dull, 2--10(--12) cm, 1/3--1/2 length of blade; indument absent. Blade narrowly deltate, 1--2-pinnate, 4--20(--30) × 1.8--12(--18) cm, thick, nearly glabrous; base not tapered; apex gradually tapered, not rooting. Rachis green to black, dull, abaxially glabrous. Pinnae in 10--22 pairs, linear-deltate, medial pinnae 1--4(--9) × 0.3--1(--2.5) cm; base with acroscopic auricle or pinnule enlarged, excavated in proximal 1/5--1/4; margins mostly 1--2-dentate-serrate, or lobed or pinnate proximally or in proximal 2/3; apex blunt in some 1-pinnate forms, gradually reduced to attenuate in strongly 2-pinnate forms; pinnules narrow, not auriculate. Veins free, evident. Sori 4--9(--10) pairs per pinna, subcostal, nearly parallel to costae on both basiscopic and acroscopic sides. Spores 64 per sporangium.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Asplenium auritum world distribution map, present in Argentina, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, Martinique, Mauritius, Malawi, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Réunion, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Tanzania, United Republic of, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22222-2
WFO ID wfo-0001108083
COL ID HJVC
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INPN ID 705889
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Synonyms

Asplenium prolixum Asplenium umbrosum Asplenium auritum Asplenium levyi Asplenium plumbeum Asplenium bidentatum Polypodium serratum Asplenium macilentum Diplazium bakerianum Asplenium schottii Asplenium curvatum Asplenium auritum var. auriculatum Asplenium marinum var. auriculatum Asplenium auritum var. moritziana Asplenium auritum var. diversifolium Asplenium auritum var. macilentum