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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.
Owing to the damp nature of the exposed rock faces in the bottom of the gullet, it has become colonised by hart's-tongue fern. To the west of the gullet, a grassland area surrounded by scrub and hedgerows supports a variety of plants including meadow vetchling and hop trefoil.
Hart's Tongue Fern sport. Fern sports are plants that show marked change from the normal type or parent stock as a result of mutation. The term Morphotype is also used for any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population. Fern fronds in sports are typically altered in several ways, such as the frond apex ...
A. ruprechtii, the Asian walking fern, also possesses attenuate, proliferating tips, but has a lanceolate leaf blade, which tapers to a wedge at the base rather than forming a heart shape. [10] A. scolopendrium, the hart's-tongue fern, has larger, longer leaves that are glossy with a rounded tip. [11]
Asplenium scolopendrium, hart's-tongue fern; Blechnum magellanicum, tall-fern* Blechnum penna-marina, small-fern* Botrychium dusenii, Dusen's moonwort* Cystopteris fragilis, brittle bladder-fern* Dryopteris dilatata, broad buckler-fern† Dryopteris filix-mas, male-fern† Grammitis poeppigiana, strap-fern* Hymenophyllum caespitosum, red-haired ...