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spleenwort
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spleenwort
any of various ferns of the genus Asplenium, esp A. trichomanes, that often grows on walls, having linear or oblong sori on the undersurface of the fronds


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DON WILSON heard a great spotted woodpecker drumming as daffodils bloomed in Calderstones Park, on Christmas Day GARY McLARDY found hartstongue fern, broad buckler, wall rues and maidenhair spleenworts on a wall off Lord Street West, Southport.
DEPARIA {dih-PAIR-ee-uh} Hooker & Greville 1830 * False Spleenworts * [Greek depas, saucer; from the saucer-like indusium of the type species Deparia prolifera.
ASPLENIUM {ess-PLEEN-ee-um} Linnaeus 1753 * Spleenworts * [Greek splen, for spleen; once thought useful for diseases of the spleen.
 
 
 
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