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Asplenium dentatum Linnaeus. Common name: Slender Spleenwort. Phenology: Jan-Dec. Habitat: On limestone in hammocks. Distribution: FL peninsula (north to Volusia County); West Indies; s. Mexico (CAM, CHP, VER, YUC) south through Central America to n. South America.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Bah, Fl1, K4, Mex, S13, Sf, SFla, WH3; = Asplenium trichomanes-dentatum L. — FNA2, Meso1, NS; > Asplenium dentatum ssp. dentatum — POWO. Basionym: Asplenium trichomanes-dentatum L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Asplenium trichomanes-dentatum - FNA2

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU

Heliophily ⓘ: 1

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image of plant© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan Cressler: Asplenium dentatum, Miami-Dade County, Florida 2 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan Cressler: Asplenium dentatum, Miami Limestone, Cutler Hammock, Miami-Dade County, Florida 2 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan Cressler: Asplenium dentatum, Matheson Hammock, Miami-Dade County, Florida 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan Cressler: Asplenium verecundum (left), Asplenium Xbiscaynianum (middle), Asplenium dentatum (right), Warwick Hammock, Miami-Dade County, Florida 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan Cressler: Asplenium dentatum, Miami-Dade County, Florida 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
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