Native records: 1 botanical areas
Chagos Archipelago
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A plant of wet tropical climates. Native to British Indian Ocean Territory.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account and images are not yet available.
Distribution areas
British Indian Ocean Territory
- Chagos ArchipelagoNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Af Tropical, rainforest
The same climate occurs in 40 areas worldwide, 39 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
- Genus
- Asplenium
Other species in Asplenium
- Asplenium acuminatumtapertip spleenwort
- Asplenium adamsii
- Asplenium adiantum-nigrumBlack Spleenwort
- Asplenium adnatum
- Asplenium adulterinumadulterated spleenwort
- Asplenium aegaeumAegean Spleenwort
- Asplenium aequibasis
- Asplenium aequilaterale
- Asplenium aethiopicumAfrican Spleenwort
- Asplenium affine
- Asplenium africanum
- Asplenium ahmarense
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
British Indian Ocean Territory · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
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