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Asplenium scolopendrium, Hart's-tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium, known as hart's-tongue[1] or hart's-tongue fern (syn. Phyllitis scolopendrium) is a fern in the genus Asplenium, of the Northern Hemisphere.

Description

The plants are unusual in being ferns with simple, undivided fronds. The tongue-shaped leaves have given rise to the common name "Hart's tongue fern"; a hart being an adult male red deer. The sori pattern is reminiscent of a centipede's legs, and scolopendrium is Latin for "centipede". The leaves are 10–60 cm long and 3–6 cm broad, with sori arranged in rows perpendicular to the rachis.

Uses

  • Asplenium scolopendrium is often grown as an ornamental plant, with several cultivars selected with varying frond form, including with frilled frond margins, forked fronds and cristate forms.
  • This fern was used in the 1800s as a medicinal plant in folk medicine as a spleen tonic and for other uses.

Common name

  • English - Hart's-tongue fern

References

External Links

Asplenium_scolopendrium-Wikipedia