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In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
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asplenium
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Athyrium \Athyrium\ n. 1. 1 a genus temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus {Asplenium }. Syn: genus Athyrium .
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Asplenium is a genus of about 700 species of ferns , often treated as the only genus in the family Aspleniaceae , though other authors consider Hymenasplenium separate, based on molecular phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences , a different chromosome count, ...
Usage examples of asplenium.
I also found one specimen of Asplenium alternifolium, which, however, is abundant on the other side the valley, on the walls that flank the path between Primadengo and Calpiognia, and elsewhere.
If you ask, for instance, Asplenium viride how it contrives to grow plentifully in the Craven of Yorkshire down to 600 or 800 feet above the sea, while in Snowdon it dislikes growing lower than 2000 feet, and is not plentiful even there?
Tell me, O Darwin, shall we know on this side of the grave why or how the Adiantum Nigrum and Asplenium capillis Veneris, have reproduced themselves, or, to be more correct, have produced ghosts and fetches of themselves at the antipodes?
I never was so lost in puzzled wonder as I was that afternoon when I found Asplenium viride growing in abundance on the volcanic boulders, at the foot of Mirngish.
When he came back he bore with him beautiful bunches of ferns of many kinds-Hymenophyllum and Asplenium, portions of the fronds of the Dicksonia, the Adiantum, the Alsophila, excelsa, the Umbrella fern, the Acrostichurn and others.