ID_PLANT: ASEB
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Asplenium ×ebenoides
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Last Modified: 2020-01-01
GENUS INDEX
GENUS CODE: ASPLE GENUS SCIENTIFIC:Asplenium GENUS AUTHORITY: L. GENUS COMMON: Spleenwort GENUS SUMMARY:Asplenium is a large, nearly cosmopolitan genus of more than 720 species, with centers of diversity in the Appalachians, Central America mountains, Andes, and Himalayas. GENUS IDENTIFICATION: Identification notes: Several of the more frequently encountered sterile hybrids are included in the key and treated fully below. Others may be recognized by intermediate morphology and usual co-occurrence with both parents. GENUS REFERENCES: Wagner, Moran, & Werth in FNA (1993b); Lin & Viane in FoC (2013)=FoC; Moran (1982); Taylor, Mohlenbrock, & Burton (1976)=Z; Murakami et al. (1999); Kramer & Viane in Kramer & Green (1990).
FAMILY INDEX
FAMILY CODE: ASPLEN FAMILY SCIENTIFIC:Aspleniaceae FAMILY AUTHORITY: Frank 1877 FAMILY COMMON: Spleenwort Family FAMILY SUMMARY: A family of a 2 genera and more than 720 species, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Murakami et al. (1999) conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Aspleniaceae, which confirmed that Camptosorus should be included in Asplenium, but suggested that Phyllitis is better separated from Asplenium. A later and more comprehensive study shows Phyllitis and Camptosorus to be deeply embedded in Asplenium (Schneider et al. 2004a), a conclusion followed here. FAMILY REFERENCE: Kramer & Viane in Kramer & Green (1990); Schneider et al. (2004a).
USDA Symbol: ASEB
USDA Common Name:
Native Status: L48 (N)
Distribution: USA (AL, AR, CT, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, VT, WV)
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Forb/herb
WEAKLEY FLORA
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Asplenium ×ebenoides
COMMON NAME: Scott's Spleenwort
SYNONYMY: [= Ar, Il, Pa, WV; = ×Asplenosorus ebenoides (R.R. Scott) Wherry - F; = Asplenosorus ebenoides (R.R. Scott) Wherry - G; < Asplenium ×ebenoides - K; < Asplenium ebenoides R.R. Scott - FNA, S]
PHENOLOGY: May-Oct.
HABITAT: Moist outcrops of calcareous sedimentary rocks, such as limestone, dolostone, and on coquina limestone (shell marl), at low elevations.
COMMENTS: VT, NJ, c. PA, OH, s. IL, and MO south to e. VA, w. NC, nw. GA, c. AL, TN, and AR. A. ×ebenoides is a sterile hybrid (chromosome complement symbolized PR). In AL, however, one population in Hale County has undergone chromosome doubling and is a fertile allotetraploid (PPRR), now treated as A. tutwilerae. Populations of this taxon, especially if consisting of many individuals, should be checked for fertile spores.
RANGE MAP: Asplenium ×ebenoides.png
Key to Map SymbolsABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora) Aspleniaceae Frank 1877 (Spleenwort Family) SUMMARY: A family of a 2 genera and more than 720 species, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Murakami et al. (1999) conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Aspleniaceae, which confirmed that Camptosorus should be included in Asplenium, but suggested that Phyllitis is better separated from Asplenium. A later and more comprehensive study shows Phyllitis and Camptosorus to be deeply embedded in Asplenium (Schneider et al. 2004a), a conclusion followed here. REFERENCE: Kramer & Viane in Kramer & Green (1990); Schneider et al. (2004a).ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora) Asplenium L. (Spleenwort) SUMMARY: Asplenium is a large, nearly cosmopolitan genus of more than 720 species, with centers of diversity in the Appalachians, Central America mountains, Andes, and Himalayas. REFERENCE: Wagner, Moran, & Werth in FNA (1993b); Lin & Viane in FoC (2013)=FoC; Moran (1982); Taylor, Mohlenbrock, & Burton (1976)=Z; Murakami et al. (1999); Kramer & Viane in Kramer & Green (1990).
HERBARIUM RESOURCES
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