Asplenium rhizophyllum

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Family:ASPLENIACEAE
Species:Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
Common Name:Walking Fern
Habitat:Damp wooded or shaded cliffs.
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Walking Fern is a native perennial evergreen fern in the Spleenwort family (Aspleniaceae). It is native to the northern half of Alabama. Walking Fern grows in pockets of soil or moss on cliffs, on ledges, and on boulders of limestone or other basic rocks. Rarely it can be found on the bases of trees or on fallen logs. It is a perennial from a short rhizome. The stem is erect or short creeping with dark brown scales. The fronds (leaves) are linear-deltoid to lanceolate in outline with long tapering tips (often rooting and forming plantlets), entire or with sinuate margins, and sparsely pubescent. The leaves are leathery in texture. The petiole is reddish brown fading to green. The rachis is green. The fronds are monomorphic (sterile and fertile fronds of the same size and shape), but fertile leaves are often larger than sterile ones. Walking Fern reproduces by forming spores in sporangia located on the under surface of the leaf. The sporangia are grouped together in clusters called sori. The sori are covered by a thin flap of tissue known as the indusium. The sori are scattered over the lower surface of the leaf. Walking Fern is very unlike other members of the genus in appearance, and has been placed in the genus Camptosorus. Walking Fern forms hybrids with Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron (Linnaeus) Britton, Sterns & Poggenburg) producing the hybrid Scott's Spleenwort (Asplenium ×ebenoides R.R. Scott); with American Wall Rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria Linnaeus) producing the hybrid Asplenium × inexpectatum E. L. Braun ex C. V. Morton; with Maidenhair Spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes Linnaeus) producing the hybrid Asplenium × shawneense (R. C. Moran) H. E. Ballard; and with Mountain Spleenwort (Asplenium montanum Willdenow) producing the hybrid Lobed Spleenwort (Asplenium pinnatifidum Nuttall). Many colonies of Walking Fern have disappeared over the last several decades and several severe droughts have repeatedly struck Alabama.--A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyASPLENIACEAE - Spleenwort family
Genus Asplenium
Species Asplenium rhizophyllum L. - Walking Fern

Citation

Citation Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1078. 1753.
Basionym: **
Type: Without data (lectotype: LINN 1250.16, right frond). Lectotypified by Morton & Lellinger in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 15 : 37. 1966.

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Camptosorus rhizophyllus    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Hale, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, St. Clair, Winston

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UNAF, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1940 - 1989

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
JSU105209 Marshall 20 Aug 1992 Clearman, F.W., Jr.
205		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_32047 Marshall 10 Aug 1974 Short, John W.
209		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0036885 DeKalb 27 Mar 2017 Keener, Brian R.
9919		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00053176 Morgan 26 Jul 1953 White, Jesse S.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105197 Jackson 21 Sep 1997 Spaulding, Daniel D.
10101		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0050607 St. Clair 09 Feb 1984 Basnett, R.S.
68		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105212 Morgan 13 Apr 1997 Allison, James (Jim) R.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052477 Colbert 12 Mar 1953 Chermock, Ralph L.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105192 Etowah 01 Apr 1971 Banholzer, M.L.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105187 Cherokee 10 Mar 1992 Ballard, J. Mark
69		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052482 Marshall 03 Jul 1980 Haynes, Robert R.
7934		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105190 Cleburne 16 Jan 1973 Landers, Kenneth E.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0001137 Morgan 21 Sep 2008 England, J. Kevin
1162		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0036426 Marshall 13 Aug 2017 England, J. Kevin
8404		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105210 Marshall 11 Jun 1993 Whetstone, R. David
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0001134 Lauderdale 13 Apr 1935 Spieth, Alda M.
s.n.		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNA00053175 DeKalb 11 Jul 1953 White, Jesse S.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
AUA000031014 Jackson 3 Jul 1984 Short, John W.
1387		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNAF0001119 Lauderdale 07 Mar 1974 Stanley, Pat
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105185 Cherokee 16 Feb 1984 Whetstone, R. David
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0012294 Madison 13 Apr 2013 Keener, Brian R.
7761		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_32547 Morgan 9 Aug 1975 Short, John W.
392		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
JSU105191 DeKalb 27 May 1974 Atkinson, Tim A.
250		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_20908 Lauderdale 26 Mar 1970 Angel, J.K.
 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
TROY000013236 Calhoun 30 Jun 1969 Clonts, Jerry A.
s.n.		 TROY
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNAF0001123 Winston 23 Sep 1989 Hatton, Jonathan
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_37743 Colbert 12 Aug 1981 O'Halloran, K.
385		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00052479 Marshall 10 Jun 1979 Meigs, Russell A.
127		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105183 Cherokee 16 Feb 1984 Nixon, Christopher F.
534		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
USAM000000015 Winston 28 Jun 1972 LeLong, Michel G.
6584		 USAM
Camptosorus rhizophyllum (L.) Link.
AUA_ACC_46878 Jackson 23 Jul 1983 Dodd, J.K.
103		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0032330 Jackson 08 Apr 2016 England, J. Kevin
6122		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00053174 Jackson 12 Jul 1953 White, Jesse S.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105199 Jackson 24 Oct 1992 Ballard, J. Mark
761		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0001138 Morgan 09 Aug 1975 Short, John (Jack) W.
392		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105211 Marshall 02 Apr 1987 Alford, J. Erik
063		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0031308 Lauderdale 30 Jan 2016 England, J. Kevin
5836		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
TROY000051051 Jackson 03 Jan 2016 England, J. Kevin
5817		 TROY
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105186 Cherokee 24 Mar 1992 Bailey, D.S.
7		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052478 Jackson 24 Jul 1949 Harvill, Jr., A.M.
100		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105200 Jackson 29 Apr 1998 Brodeur, Kristin R.
584		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0001135 Lawrence 20 Sep 2008 England, J. Kevin
1160		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0036421 Marshall 12 Aug 2017 England, J. Kevin
8398		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
USAM000000014 Winston 28 Jun 1972 LeLong, Michel G.
6584		 USAM
Camptosorus rhizophyllum (L.) Link.
AUA_ACC_72785 Jackson 18 Mar 2009 Barger, T. Wayne
HC34		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0031364 Jackson 03 Jan 2016 England, J. Kevin
5817		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00053256 DeKalb 11 Jul 1953 White, Jesse S.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
AUA000031010 Jackson 3 Jul 1984 Short, John W.
1390		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNAF0001121 Lauderdale 16 Apr 1970 Stephenson, Oscar
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AMAL00005320 DeKalb 08 Aug 1987 Dickson, Catherine C.
1049		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNA00028698 Lauderdale 09 Apr 1988 Haynes, Robert R.
9334		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNA00065346 Winston 09 Jan 2005 England, J. Kevin
260		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105196 Jackson 28 Mar 1976 Atkinson, Tim A.
963		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0017153 Lawrence 27 Oct 2012 England, J. Kevin
4016		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
TROY000049943 Colbert 21 Jun 1980 Short, John W. (Jack)
1204		 TROY
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNAF0001124 Winston 16 Sep 1984 Henderson, Taffy
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_13399 Calhoun 5 Mar 1968 O'Neal, Judy
 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00052480 Marshall 14 Mar 1979 Meigs, Russell A.
37		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
AMAL00010831 Marshall 25 Mar 2006 Keener, Brian R.
2714		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105181 Calhoun 30 Jun 1969 Clonts, Jerry A.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_35559 Jackson 21 Oct 1978 Short, John W.
1188		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00025631 Colbert 29 Jun 1941 Shaw, James W.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
AMAL00005319 Jackson 20 Dec 1982 Ray, Micheal A.
69		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNA00064851 Colbert 18 Apr 2003 Keener, Brian R.
2537		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105189 Cherokee 25 Feb 1992 Harris, Christy
15		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AMAL00019921 Jackson 03 Jul 1984 Short, John W. (Jack)
1390		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105195 Jackson 27 Jun 1998 Brodeur, Kristin R.
923		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105203 Jackson 16 May 1967 Sanford, N.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052476 Lawrence 09 May 1987 Haynes, Robert R.
9122		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNAF0001122 Lauderdale 20 Jun 1972 Burns, Ann
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105205 Madison 17 Mar 1996 Threlkeld, Steven J.
121		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0001136 Marshall 25 Mar 2006 Keener, Brian R.
2714		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0047747 Lawrence 17 Jun 2005 England, J. Kevin
485		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105201 Jackson 16 Oct 1986 Moore, C.M.
089		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_32046 Limestone 23 Nov 1973 Short, John W.
160		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00025628 Colbert 05 Oct 1940 Shaw, James W.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
AUA000031006 Colbert 21 Jun 1980 Short, John W.
1204		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
ALNHS00003716 Colbert 23 Mar 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
FH-627		 ALNHS
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
SAMF0006224 Jackson 02 Jun 2006 Davenport, Lawrence J.
3438		 SAMF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105207 Madison 11 Sep 1994 Spaulding, Daniel D.
6235		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_32023 Winston 22 Sep 1978 Glick, J.I.
 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
AUA_ACC_9986 Winston 1959 Hawkins, U.H.
 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
JSU105194 Etowah 11 Mar 1995 Soehren, Eric C.
027		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00059042 St. Clair 08 Jun 2002 Vanderplank, S.
26087		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNAF0001120 Lauderdale 06 Sep 1984 Cruce, Angie
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_20248 Lauderdale 8 Jul 1970 Moore, Harold D.
223		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0049679 Lauderdale 20 Mar 2019 Webb, David H.
8645		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105182 Calhoun 01 May 1967 Boone, W.E. (Bill)
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
TROY000031058 Winston 22 Sep 1978 Glick, J.I.
s.n.		 TROY
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105188 Cherokee 25 Feb 1992 Clearman, F.W., Jr.
021		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_32546 Jackson 19 Mar 1975 Short, John W.
350		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00052473 Madison 06 Sep 1953 Brown, Jack S.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105198 Jackson 28 Mar 1975 Whetstone, R. David
7659		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00023868 Lawrence 26 Jun 1989 Harding, Dennis
2		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105184 Cherokee 23 Feb 1984 Goodloe, R.O.
009		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052483 Hale 20 Mar _ Smith, Eugene A.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105208 Marshall 23 Mar 1994 Spaulding, Daniel D.
5077		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
SAMF0006226 Winston 07 May 1959 McCullough, Herbert A.
s.n.		 SAMF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105206 Limestone 02 Jun 1997 Hofmann, Tim L.
00567		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052481 Jackson 05 Jul 1980 Haynes, Robert R.
8015		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU143446 Calhoun 05 Mar 1968 Stuart, Martha
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0012852 Jackson 22 Sep 2012 England, J. Kevin
3955		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UWAL0044850 Jackson 13 Jul 2019 England, J. Kevin
10443		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
JSU105204 Lauderdale 10 Apr 1969 Masterson, Brenda
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AUA_ACC_31586 Jackson 21 Oct 1978 Short, John W.
1188		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00025630 Colbert 29 Jun 1941 Shaw, James W.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
AUA_ACC_67002 Jackson 2 Jun 2006 Hansen, Curtis J.
2260		 AUA
Asplenium Rhizophyllum L.
UNA00058784 Marshall 25 Mar 2006 Keener, Brian R.
2714		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105193 Etowah 01 Apr 1971 Hill, Tommy C.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AMAL00019814 Cherokee 09 Aug 1982 Short, John W. (Jack)
1279		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AMAL00018341 Lauderdale 16 Mar 2010 Holt, Brian D.
SC-265		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
JSU105202 Jackson 30 Apr 1967 Sanford, N.
s.n.		 JSU
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052474 Jackson 01 Mar 1953 Valentine, B.D.
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UNAF0001118 Cullman 26 Sep 1989 Cooke, Steve
s.n.		 UNAF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
AMAL00005321 Cherokee 16 Feb 1989 Spaulding, Daniel D.
26		 AMAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
UWAL0031422 Colbert 30 Mar 2016 England, J. Kevin
6061		 UWAL
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
SAMF0006225 Winston 07 May 1959 McCullough, Herbert A.
s.n.		 SAMF
Asplenium rhizophyllum Linnaeus
UNA00052472 Marshall 20 Apr 1961 Edwards, Jackie
s.n.		 UNA
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
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