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Asplenium ruta-muraria L., 1753

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Wall-rue
  • 🇫🇷 Doradille rue-des-murailles, Rue-des-murailles

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Monilophytes
  • Class: Polypodiopsida
  • Subclass: Polypodiidae
  • Order: Polypodiales
  • Suborder: Aspleniineae
  • Family: Aspleniaceae
  • Genus: Asplenium
  • Species: Asplenium ruta-muraria

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • A. ruta-muraria nothosubsp. baldense (Sleep, Vida & Reichst.) Muñoz Garm., 1985: subsp. dolomiticum × subsp. ruta-muraria, triploid (2n = 108), P;
  • A. ruta-muraria subsp. dolomiticum Lovis & Reichst., 1964: het. syn. A. dolomiticum (Lovis & Reichst.) Á.Löve & D.Löve, 1974, diploid (2n = 72), P;
  • A. ruta-muraria subsp. ruta-muraria: autotetraploid (2n = 144)
    • var. cryptolepis (Fernald) Wherry, 1942;
    • var. lanceolum Christ, 1903;
    • var. ruta-muraria L., 1753, P;
    • var. schriesheimense Röhner & Bujnoch, 2013.

Hybridizes with:

  • A. adiantum-nigrum L., 1753 to produce A. × lingelsheimii Seymann, 1910, Q;
  • A. lepidum C.Presl, 1836 to produce A. × javorkae Kümmerle, 1923, P;
  • A. septentrionale (L.) Hoffm., 1796 to produce A. × murbeckii Dörfl., 1895, P;
  • A. trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis (Christ) Lovis & Reichst., 1980 to produce A. × clermontiae nothosubsp. rasbachiae S.Jess., 2019;
  • A. trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens D.E.Mey., 1962 to produce A. × clermontiae nothosubsp. clermontiae Syme, 1886, P.

Photographs

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Asplenium ruta-muraria
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Asplenium ruta-muraria
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Asplenium ruta-muraria
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Frond
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Frond, abaxial side showing open sporangia
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Individuals growing in crevices on an old wall, together with Asplenium trichomanes L., 1753
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Individual growing in a crevice on a brick bridge
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Individuals growing between the bricks of a bridge
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Individual growing on an old wall
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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Individual growing on an old wall

Sources

  • Badré, F., & Deschatres, R. (1979). Les Ptéridophytes de la France : liste commentée des espèces (taxinomie, cytologie, écologie et répartition générale). Candollea, 34(2), 379-457. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-880127

  • Prelli, R., & Boudrie, M. (2024). Les fougères et plantes alliées d’Europe (2nd ed., p. 285). Biotope.

  • Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 7). Biotope.