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Asplenium scolopendrium L., 1753

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Hart’s-tongue
  • 🇫🇷 Doradille scolopendre, Scolopendre, Scolopendre officinale, Langue-de-cerf

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • A. scolopendrium subsp. americanum (Fernald) N.Heo, 2023: tetraploid (2n = 144);
  • A. scolopendrium subsp. antri-jovis (Kümmerle) Brownsey & Jermy, 1973;
  • A. scolopendrium subsp. japonicum (Kom.) Rasbach, Reichst. & Viane, 1991: tetraploid (2n = 144);
  • A. scolopendrium subsp. scolopendrium L., 1753: diploid (2n = 72), P.

Photographs

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Asplenium scolopendrium
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Asplenium scolopendrium
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Asplenium scolopendrium
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Asplenium scolopendrium
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Frond, abaxial side showing sori with open sporangia
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Frond, abaxial side showing indusia
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Indusia close-up
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Individuals growing on an old wall, together with Asplenium trichomanes L., 1753
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Individuals growing near a stream
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Individual growing near a stream, together with Polystichum setiferum (Forssk.) T.Moore ex Woynar, 1913
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Individuals growing together with Polystichum setiferum (Forssk.) T.Moore ex Woynar, 1913
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Young individuals growing in a crevice
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Young individuals growing in a crevice, same location as above, 1 year later
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Asplenium scolopendrium - Crozier unfurling

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

  • Christenhusz, M., Bento Elias, R., Dyer, R., Ivanenko, Y., Rouhan, G., Rumsey, F., & Väre, H. (2017). Asplenium scolopendrium (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/83504456/83506952

  • Heo, N., Yun, S., & Fernando, D.D. (2023). Molecular phylogenetic assessment of three major taxa in the Asplenium scolopendrium complex (Aspleniaceae). Taxon, 72(2), 245-260. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12890

  • Prelli, R., & Boudrie, M. (2024). Les fougères et plantes alliées d’Europe (2nd ed., p. 289). Biotope.

  • Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 5). Biotope.