Asplenium ×lucrosum
Common names
hen & chicken fern
Biostatus
Exotic
Conservation status
Not applicable
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Ferns
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Ecology
Origin
A sterile hybrid A. bulbiferum × A. dimorphum which is commonly cutlivated throughout the world as A. bulbiferum.
Reason for introduction
Horticultural
Life cycle and dispersal
A sterile hybrid. Asexual spread from bulbils on fronds. Dispersed by water and accidental and deliberate plantings of whole plants and/or fronds bearing bulbils.
Other information
Etymology
asplenium: From the Greek a- ‘without’ and splene ‘spleen’, a northern hemisphere species, the black spleenwort (Asplenium adiantum-nigrum), was once believed to be a cure for diseases of the spleen.