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Christmas Island spleenwort
Asplenium listeri
About
Asplenium listeri, commonly known as the Christmas Island spleenwort, is a species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae. It is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet honours British zoologist and plant collector Joseph Jackson Lister, who visited the island on HMS Egeria in 1887 and was the first to collect a specimen.
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Asplenium listeri
- Slug
- asplenium-listeri
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
- Genus
- Asplenium
- Species
- listeri
- Wikidata QID
- Q4808133
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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