Asplenium nidus

Tags: Fern.

See bird’s-nest fern for other plants with this common name.Asplenium nidus is an epiphytic species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae native to tropical southeastern Asia eastern Australia Hawaii[citation needed] Polynesia[citation needed] Christmas Island[citation needed] India[citation needed] and eastern Africa. It is known by the common names bird’s-nest fern (a name shared by other aspleniums) or simply nest fern.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Leptosporangiate fern

conservation status

G5

conservation status system

TNC

division

Pteridophyte

family

Aspleniaceae

genus

Asplenium

kingdom

Plant

order

Polypodiales

synonym

*A. australasicum (J.Sm.) Hook.), *A. ficifolium (Goldm.), *Asplenium antiquum (Makino), *N. musaefolia (J.Sm.), *N. nidus (L.) J.Sm.), *N. rigida (Fée), *Neottopteris mauritiana (Fée), *Thamnopteris nidus (L.) C.Presl)