Asplenium goudeyi 

Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Common name:               unknown  

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

• From New Latin asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from its use to cure anthrax in livestock

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Flowers:                  

• x

Fruit:                         

• x

Leaves:         

• The wavy edged fronds are 50 to 75 cm long, and 12 to 18 cm wide

Stem & branches: 

•  x

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• A fern 

Habitat:   

• On trees, or rocks, boulders, cliff faces and sometimes in exposed position

Distribution:                  

• Only found on Lord Howe Island

• A common plant growing in a variety of situations

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • This plant was described in 1996.

  • A global phylogeny of Asplenium published in 2020 divided the genus into eleven clades, which were given informal names pending further taxonomic study. A. goudeyi belongs to the "Neottopteris clade",[3] members of which generally have somewhat leathery leaf tissue

  • While the subclades of this group are poorly resolved, several of them share a characteristic "bird's-nest fern" morphology with entire leaves and fused veins near the margin

  • A. goudeyi forms a clade with the morphologically similar A. nidus sensu lato and A. australasicum, but other bird's-nest ferns such as A. antiquum and A. phyllitidis form a separate subclade which is not particularly closely related

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