Asplenium auritum Sw.
EOL Text
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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Isotype for Asplenium monodon Liebm.
Catalog Number: US 591302
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. M. Liebmann
Locality: Mexico, Central America
- Isotype: Liebmann, F. M. 1849. Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., Naturvidensk. Math. Afd. ser. 5. 1: 249.
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Type collection for Asplenium monodon Liebm.
Catalog Number: US 474918
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. M. Liebmann
Year Collected: 1841
Locality: E of Monserrat, Mexico, Central America
- Type collection: Liebmann, F. M. 1849. Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., Naturvidensk. Math. Afd. ser. 5. 1: 249.
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Holotype fragment for Asplenium levyi E. Fourn.
Catalog Number: US 1114775
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): P. Levy
Year Collected: 1870
Locality: Chontales, Nicaragua, Central America
Elevation (m): 600 to 600
- Holotype fragment: Fournier, E. P. 1872. Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 19: 257.
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Comments: Epiphytic on tree trunks and logs in swamps and hammocks.
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Mainly epiphytic on old sloping tree trunks in shady forests; 0--50m.
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Common. Greater Antilles, continental tropical America from southern Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia. Also occurs in central and southern Florida.