Compilation
Asplenium nidus

33 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Asplenium nidus L. [family ASPLENIACEAE ] Asplenium spirale Holttum [family ASPLENIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Asplenium australasicum
  • Asplenium nidus
  • Asplenium spirale
  • Asplenium phyllitidis

Flora

Entry for Asplenium nidus L. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Henk Beentje
Names
Asplenium nidus L. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1079 (1753); Johns, Pterid. trop. East Africa checklist: 66 (1991). Type: Osbeck 49, Herb. Linn. No. 1250.6 (LINN, lecto.), designated by Holttum in Gard. Bull. Singapore 27: 147 (1974)
Information
Epiphyte or occasional lithophyte, forming large clumps up to 2 m diameter; rhizome erect, thick (at least to 2.5 cm but probably more), bearing many persistent rootlets and with golden brown narrowly triangular rhizome scales to 25x3 mm, the margins with protuberances, apex attenuate into a hair-tip. Fronds tufted. Stipe blackish, almost absent or to 5 cm long. Lamina very shiny with black midrib (fide Verdcourt), coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, 70–200x(10.5–)15–22 cm, simple, apex acuminate; costa raised above, almost flat beneath; veins forked from near base, dense and at 30–45° to midrib, united just before margin with a marginal vein; veins and costa scaly when young, glabrescent. Sori along the veins in the distal half of the lamina, from near midrib/costa to 1/4 to 1/2 of the width of the lamina, linear, (5–)17–58 mm long; indusium membranous, entire, to 0.5 mm wide. Fig. 1: 1–2, p. 9.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 6; Z, P; SE Asia, N Australia, Micronesia, Pacific islands
Altitude range
0–1200 m
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kaya Jibana, Aug. 1996, Luke et al. 4529!KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Kivumoni, March 1991, Luke & Robertson 2693! & idem, Longomwagandi, June 1996, Luke et al. 4512!TANZANIA Lushoto District Usambara Mts, Amani, Sigi R., Aug. 1963, Ali Omari in Richards 18177! & Mtai Forest Reserve, Oct. 1999, Kayombo et al. 2935!TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, NW slope of Mkobwe, March 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1887!TANZANIA Zanzibar, Jozani forest, Dec. 1929, Vaughan 998!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Indian Ocean islands
India
China
Japan
Notes
CONSERVATION Widespread; least concern (LC)

Related Materials