asplenium viride

Asplenium viride is a species of fern known as the green spleenwort because of its green stipes and rachides. This feature easily distinguishes it from the very similar-looking maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes.

Green spleenwort was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum, under the name 'Asplenium Trich. ramosum', with a type locality of 'in Arvorniæ rupibus' (rocks in Caernarfonshire). Under the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, phrase names ...