Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asplenium monanthes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Asplenium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
It is becoming increasingly clear that "A. monanthes" represents a widespread apomictic complex of two or more species, requiring additional study and taxonomic revision...; the appropriate taxonomic disposition of our southeastern United States populations is unclear. It is unlikely that they will end up in A. monanthes, typified on South African material, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium monanthes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Asplenium monanthes
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-007:
Asplenium monanthes FAMILY Aspleniaceae
COMMON NAME:
Single-sorus Spleenwort, One-sorus Spleenwort
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L.L. (Chick) Gaddy llg_a_monanthes
May Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Pinnae opposite, oblong, obtuse to subacute at apex, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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L.L. (Chick) Gaddy llg_a_monanthes_b
May Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Sorus usually solitary and parallel to main vein along anterior edge of pinna, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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L.L. (Chick) Gaddy llg_a_monanthes_habitat
May Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Grows on shaded mossy rocks & ledges in deep ravines, sinkholes, cave mouths, per Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012).
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JK Marlow jkm0507o_24
July Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asplenium monanthes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium monanthes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Asplenium monanthes
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-007:
Asplenium monanthes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
1991
Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Habitat: Moist calcareous situations, in the mountains in moist grottoes of calcareous to semi-calcareous metamorphic rocks (such as mylonite or marble) near waterfalls in humid escarpment gorges with high rainfall, on limestone talus in collapsed sinkhole mouth, or on moist Coastal Plain limestone outcrops, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas
Rare and scattered
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Pinnate
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes erect
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p215
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p105
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