Native records: 7 botanical areas
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, 4 more areas
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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A perennial / lithophyte of subtropical climates. Native to Australia.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account and images are not yet available.
Distribution areas
Australia
- New South WalesNative
- Northern TerritoryNative
- QueenslandNative
- South AustraliaNative
- TasmaniaNative
- VictoriaNative
- Western AustraliaNative
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.
- Cfb Temperate, no dry season, warm summer
- BWh Arid, desert, hot
- BSh Arid, steppe, hot
- BSk Arid, steppe, cold
- Cfa Temperate, no dry season, hot summer
- Aw Tropical, savannah
The same climate occurs in 159 areas worldwide, 152 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 picardae
- Asplenium pifongiae
- Asplenium pinnatifidumlobed spleenwort
- Asplenium platybasis
- Asplenium platyneuronEbony Spleenwort
- Asplenium plenumruffled spleenwort
- Asplenium pocsii
- Asplenium poloense
- Asplenium polyodonSickle Speenwort
- Asplenium polyphyllum
- Asplenium poolii
- Asplenium potosinum
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Australia · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
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