BLACK SPLEENWORT
Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum
Spleenwort Family [Aspleniaceae] 
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Spleenwort Family [Aspleniaceae]
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| 16th June 2009, Clints & grykes, Great Orme, Llandudno. | Photo: © RWD |
| In a protective gryke niche on limestone pavement. |
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| 16th June 2009, Clints & grykes, Great Orme, Llandudno. | Photo: © RWD |
| The fronds are a light green in colour, the stems doubly-grooved from above. |
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| 16th June 2009, Clints & grykes, Great Orme, Llandudno. | Photo: © RWD |
| The fronds form an almost space-filling fractal pattern. |
_[Asplenium_AdiantumNigrum]_2009_06_16_GreatOrme_736p0.jpg)
| 16th June 2009, Clints & grykes, Great Orme, Llandudno. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 16th June 2009, Clints & grykes, Great Orme, Llandudno. | Photo: © RWD |
| The obverse, the stems are half-rounded without two grooves. Too early in the year for the spores to have formed. |
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Easily confused with : Parsley Fern but that has only one groove on the upper-surface of the mid-rib. Occupies niches in walls, rocks, and hedge-banks. Most common in the West of the UK. There seems to be a quite pronounced variation in the fronds of Black Spleenwort, even on other websites, many looking un-like the drawings in Blamey, Fitter and Fitters 'Wildflowers of Britain and Ireland' book, and this includes the specimen shown here. It could be that myself (and several other websites) have identified these wrongly, or it could be that the differences reflect real variations in appearance, the Auhor does not know. If anyone does, please get in touch. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
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Spleenwort Family [Aspleniaceae]
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