Asplenium lepidum

??? Spleenwort
  • Small fern with tufted leaves, from 5 to 10 cm in length
  • Blade with many glandular hairs, broadest at base
  • Stem green
  • Cutting of the pinnulae deep, but variable

ASPLENIACEAE

genus Asplenium
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Protected species

 

  • Development in spring, fructification in summer, leaves drying in winter
  • Limestone overhangs and cliffs, often in dry situations. Below 1000 m in altitude
  • For very long time, only one place was known in whole France : Sainte Eulalie en Royans, on the foothills of Vercors.
    Observed recently in Gorges de la Bourne (alt. 850 m). To be searched for elsewhere. Also known in "Savoie" and in "Alpes Maritimes".