Species profile—Asplenium wildii
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Aspleniaceae → Asplenium wildii
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
- Scientific name
- Asplenium wildii F.M.Bailey
- WildNet taxon ID
- 12061
- Superseded by
- Hymenasplenium wildii (04/05/2021)
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Exotic
- Pest status
- Nil
- Short Notes
- Pteridophyta, BRI 168322, handwriting of author, status annotated by P.J.Brownsey
- Description
- Asplenium wildii is a fern. The root system is short, creeping and scaly. The frond stalk and midrib are mostly dark brown and become green near the tip. The frond blade is egg-shaped in outline, thin, hairless (or with few hairs), 4-9 cm long by 2.5-4 cm wide and divided into segments. The segments are in 5-8 pairs, the basal ones are ovate and the others oblong in shape. The segment tips are pointed and the margins are bluntly and irregularly serrated. The longest segment (below the middle) is 14-25 mm long, gradually decreasing in size toward the tip of the frond. Spore clusters are up to 5 mm long. A. wildii is similar to A. unilaterale, which has 14-22 pairs of segments. (Brownsey 1998)
- Map
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- Habitat
- This fern grows in rainforest habitats, on steep river banks with clay soils and wet rocks of metamorphic origin. (Brownsey 1998)
- Notes
- Contributors: Peter Bostock, Mellisa Mayhew 13/03/2009
- References
- Brownsey, P.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (Ed) (1998). Flora of Australia 48: 318.
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (2008). Asplenium wildii in Species Profile and Threats Database. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. Accessed 23/09/2008. http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl
Herbrecs (2008). Asplenium wildii, in BriMapper version 2.12. Queensland Herbarium. Accessed 23/09/2008. - Profile author
- Peter Bostock (13/03/2009)
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=12061.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
