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Asplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
Ebony spleenwort

Asplenium platyneuron
Copyright by: Shirley Denton

Family: Aspleniaceae

Group: Pteridophyte

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Central and eastern North America and southern Africa.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Possibly Extirpated or Extinct in the Wild

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Possibly Extirpated

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as possibly extirpated in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002, pp 123-124) based on records from 1976 to the late 1980s from two sites in Everglades National Park. No new records are known.

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Not Cultivated

Comments: For more images, click on the USDA PLANTS and Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants links below.

See also, IRC’s report Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015), page 58.

Other data on Asplenium platyneuron available from :

Asplenium platyneuron has been found in the following conservation area :
Occurrence Native Status
Everglades National Park Possibly Extirpated Possibly Extirpated

Asplenium platyneuron has been found in the following county :
Occurrence Native Status
Miami-Dade County Possibly Extirpated Possibly Extirpated

Asplenium platyneuron has been found in the following habitat :
Prairie Hammock

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Asplenium platyneuron
Copyright by: Shirley Denton
Asplenium platyneuron
Copyright by: John Kunkel Small
from Ferns of Florida, 1931 (public domain)