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The most striking and unusual feature of the fern is its simple, strap-shaped undivided fronds. The supposed resemblance of the leaves to the tongue of a hart (an archaic term for a male red deer) gave rise to the common name "hart's-tongue fern". Asplenium scolopendrium. Asplenium scolopendrium sori. Asplenium scolopendrium prothallus
Protea scolopendriifolia, also known as the harts-tongue-fern sugarbush [2] or hart's-tongue-fern sugarbush, [3] is a flowering shrub endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in both the Western and Eastern Cape. [2] It is found from the Cederberg, through the Kogelberg, Riviersonderend Mountains and Swartberg, to the Kouga Mountains.
English name Scientific name Status Black spleenwort Asplenium adiantum-nigrum: Native Rustyback Asplenium ceterach: Native Sea spleenwort Asplenium marinum: Native Lanceolate spleenwort Asplenium obovatum: Native Irish spleenwort Asplenium onopteris: Native Wall-rue Asplenium ruta-muraria: Native Hart's-tongue Asplenium scolopendrium: Native ...
Both the scientific name and the common name "spleenwort" are derived from an old belief, based on the doctrine of signatures, that the fern was useful for ailments of the spleen, [4] due to the spleen-shaped sori on the backs of the fronds. "-wort" is an ancient English term that simply means "plant" (compare German-wurz).
Larvae feed from August to June, initially in a whitish mine in the frond, and in the spring they leave the mine and burrow into a sorus, feeding on the sporangia.They later form a loose, portable case from empty sporangia and when fully grown in May the case resembles a misplaced sorus, especially on hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium).
Asplenium rhizophyllum, the (American) walking fern, is a frequently-occurring fern native to North America. It is a close relative of Asplenium ruprechtii [ 2 ] (syn: Camptosorus sibiricus ) which is found in East Asia and also goes by the common name of "walking fern".
English name: Scientific name: Communities: Brown bent: Agrostis vinealis: H6: Common bent: Agrostis capillaris: MG3, MG5, SD12, CG10, W11: Bristle bent: Agrostis ...
Ophioglossum, the adder's-tongue ferns, is a genus of about 50 species of ferns in the family Ophioglossaceae. The name Ophioglossum comes from the Greek meaning "snake-tongue". [ 3 ] Their cosmopolitan distribution is mainly in tropical and subtropical habitats .