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Asplenium onopteris is known as the Irish spleenwort or Western Black Spleenwort. It is difficult to identify compared with the Black spleenwort Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. The main difference is that A. onopteris is diploid and is one of the two parents of the tetraploid A. adiantum-nigrum (the other being the diploid A. cuneifolium). Armed with a microscope the most consistent observable difference between A. onopteris and A. adiantum-nigrum is that A.

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