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Definition of Genus Asplenium
1. Noun. In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Aspleniaceae, Family Aspleniaceae
Member holonyms: Spleenwort, Asplenium Nidus, Bird's Nest Fern, Asplenium Scolopendrium, Hart's-tongue, Hart's-tongue Fern, Phyllitis Scolopendrium, Asplenium Ceterach, Ceterach Officinarum, Scale Fern, Scaly Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Asplenium
Literary usage of Genus Asplenium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"Recent writers have, with as little hesitation, taken Filix foemina from the
genus Polypodium, and placed it in the genus Asplenium. ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1903)
"... and the more divided members of the genus Asplenium, now distributed among
several genera but, with perhaps a single exception, all members of the tribe ..."
3. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"THIS is another example of a solitary Fern, having been separated from the genus
Asplenium. In its characters it seems intermediate between Asplenium and ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The genus Asplenium has had a long life-period upon the earth, it having appeared
first during Middle Jurassic time, since which period it has spread over ..."
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