Asplenium parvum

Asplenium parvum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
(unranked): Eupolypods II
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species: A. parvum
Binomial name
Asplenium parvum
Watts 1914

Asplenium parvum is a plant in the Spleenwort group of ferns. An epiphytic fern, seen growing on rocks and trees in tropical rainforests, usually at high altitude in Queensland. The specific epithet parvum is derived from latin, meaning "few or small". Described by Reverend Watts from a cultivated specimen growing in Gladesville, New South Wales. It first appeared in scientific literature in 1914 in the Linnean Society of New South Wales.[1]

References

  1. P.J. Brownsey. "Asplenium parvum". Flora of Australia Online. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
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