ASPLENIUML. - SPLEENWORT
Scientific Description:
Rhizome scales clathrate. Fronds pinnately or dichotomously divided, with, at most, scattered glands, never densely scaly. Sori elongate along veinlets, indusium of the same shape as the sorus, opening towards the midrib. Spores bilateral.
Reference:
Davis PH (1965). Asplenium L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 48.
Public Description:
Asplenium, commonly known as “spleenwort”, has a cosmopolitan but largely tropical distribution. There are approximately 459 species in the world and 19 species (19 taxa) in Türkiye. Like other ferns, this genus does not contain flower, fruit or seed. Although they have vascular systems as seen in flowering plants, they produce spores instead of seeds to reproduce. A Few of these ferns are used as ornamental plants. At the beginning of these, "The bird's-nest ferns (Asplenium nidus L.)” comes.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplenium, Accessed date: 07.07.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/4115750?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, Accessed date: 07.07.2017.
Anonymous 3 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/P/Aspleniaceae/Asplenium/, Accessed date: 07.07.2017.
Anonymous 4 (2017). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=asplenium, Accessed date: 07.07.2017.
Güner A (2012). Asplenium L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 3-4.
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