Asplenium hemionitis

Asplenium hemionitis is a species of fern native to Macaronesia, Northwest Africa and mainland Portugal. It inhabits humid woods and other shady areas, sometimes in uncovered slopes subject to high ocean humidity.^[2][3]

Asplenium hemionitis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Aspleniineae
Family:	Aspleniaceae
Genus:	Asplenium
Species:	A. hemionitis
Binomial name
Asplenium hemionitis L.

Two subspecies are accepted.^[4]

• Asplenium hemionitis var. hemionitis – Algeria, Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Madeira, Morocco, and Portugal
• Asplenium hemionitis var. longilobatum G.Kunkel – Canary Islands (La Gomera)

Linnaeus was the first to describe the species with the binomial Asplenium hemionitis in his Species Plantarum of 1753.^[5]