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Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes

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Maidenhair Spleenwort Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens dylan Victoria Park 25 Oct 2022, 2:39 p.m. 25 Oct 2022, 11:24 a.m.
Lobed Maidenhair Spleenwort Lobed Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis dylan Bristol 27 Sep 2023, 9:21 p.m. 29 Sep 2023, 2:31 p.m.
Maidenhair Spleenwort Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens dylan Westbury Wildlife Park 26 Mar 2021, 10:12 a.m. 24 Mar 2021, 4:02 p.m.
Maidenhair Spleenwort Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens dylan Westbury Wildlife Park 26 Mar 2021, 10:12 a.m. 24 Mar 2021, 4:02 p.m.
Maidenhair Spleenwort Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens dylan Westbury Wildlife Park 26 Mar 2021, 10:12 a.m. 24 Mar 2021, 4:02 p.m.
Maidenhair Spleenwort Maidenhair Spleenwort - Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens dylan Westbury Wildlife Park 26 Mar 2021, 10:12 a.m. 24 Mar 2021, 4:02 p.m.

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Species Description

Common and widespread throughout the UK. Habitat includes: walls, rock faces. A small tufted plant, the rhizome is short-creeping, often branched. It has a blackish glossy frond stalk and midrib and green fronds that are narrow, long, and once pinnate. 5-30 cm long. Pinnae: 20 to 35 pairs, opposite to sub opposite, oblong, round at apex. Sori long-oblong. Perennial.

Subspecies

name latinname species sightings media image
Lobed Maidenhair Spleenwort Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis 1 2 41 image for Lobed Maidenhair Spleenwort
Maidenhair Spleenwort Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens 1 11 17 image for Maidenhair Spleenwort