Asplenium aethiopicum

Asplenium aethiopicum is a lithophytic or sometimes epiphytic species of fern found in Southern and tropical Africa, tropical America, Asia and Australia.^[3][4][5] It is listed as critically endangered in Victoria, Australia.^[5] It is considered exotic in New Zealand.^[6]

Asplenium aethiopicum
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Aspleniineae
Family:	Aspleniaceae
Genus:	Asplenium
Species:	A. aethiopicum
Binomial name
Asplenium aethiopicum (Burm.f.) Bech.
Subspecies[2]
Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. aethiopicum Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. filare (Forssk.) A.F.Braithw. Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. tripinnatum (Baker) A.F.Braithw.
Synonyms[2]
subsp. aethiopicum Trichomanes adiantoides L. Trichomanes aethiopicum Burm.f. Asplenium lanceolatum Forssk. Asplenium adiantoides (L.) Lam. Asplenium falsum Retz. Asplenium furcatum Thunb. Asplenium fragrans Schkuhr Asplenium cultratum Gaudich. Asplenium denticulatum Blume Asplenium hirsutum B.Heyne Asplenium tripartitum Blume Asplenium cuneatum Hook. & Grev. Asplenium furcatum f. platyphyllum Kunze Asplenium nigricans Kunze Asplenium dentex Kunze Tarachia browniana C.Presl Tarachia furcata (Thunb.) C.Presl Tarachia furcata var. platyphylla C.Presl Tarachia nigricans (Kunze) C.Presl Asplenium praemorsum var. furcatum (Thunb.) T.Moore Asplenium vinsonii Cordem. Asplenium adiantoides (L.) C.Chr. Asplenium rhipidoneuron W.J.Rob. Asplenium praemorsum var. angustitripinnatum Bonap. Chamaefilix adiantoides (L.) Farw. Tarachia adiantoides (L.) Nakai ex Tuyama Asplenium aemilii-guineae Alston subsp. filare Acrostichum filare Forssk. Chamaefilix filaris (Forssk.) Farw. Asplenium filare (Forssk.) Alston subsp. tripinnatum Asplenium furcatum var. tripinnatum Baker Asplenium tripinnatum (Baker) Panigrahi Asplenium tetraploideum Panigrahi

Taxonomy

Asplenium aethiopicum was originally published under the name Trichomanes aethiopicum by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768.^[3] In 1935 Alfred Becherer moved this taxon to the genus Asplenium creating the name Asplenium aethiopicum.^[3]