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Ascension Spleenwort

Asplenium ascensionis

Type: Endemic Plant | Status: Vulnerable | Nativeness: Endemic

Description

Small, creeping fern generally found in crevices on damp to moderately dry cinder banks and rock faces around the middle elevations of Green Mountain. Can spread via plantlets produced from the frond tips forming small patches of continuous cover.

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