Asplenium trichomanes subsp. trichomanes L., 1753

Common names

• 🇬🇧 Maidenhair Spleenwort
• 🇫🇷 Doradille des murailles, Capillaire des murailles, Fausse capillaire, Capillaire rouge

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Type subspecies with a reddish-brown rachis, whose fronds gradually become narrower, whose terminal segment is slightly reduced, and whose pinnae are rounded. The pinnae are inserted slightly obliquely on the rachis and are spaced more or less evenly, especially on the upper half of the frond. Diploid (2n = 72).

Hybridizes with:

• A. foreziense Le Grand ex Magnier, 1884 to produce A. × pagesii nothosubsp. guichardii (Litard.) Viane, Boudrie, Rasbach & K.Rasbach, 2003, P;
• A. septentrionale subsp. septentrionale (L.) Hoffm., 1796 to produce A. × alternifolium nothosubsp. alternifolium Wulfen, 1781, P;
• A. trichomanes subsp. inexpectans Lovis, 1964 to produce A. trichomanes nothosubsp. melzerianum S.Jess., 1995, P;
• A. trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens D.E.Mey., 1962 to produce A. trichomanes nothosubsp. lusaticum (D.E.Mey.) Lawalrée, 1978, P.

Photographs

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. 297). Biotope.

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 6). Biotope.