Definition of Genus Asplenium

1. Noun. In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Asplenium

genus Asclepias
genus Ascophyllum
genus Asimina
genus Asio
genus Aspalathus
genus Asparagus
genus Aspergillus
genus Asperula
genus Asphodeline
genus Asphodelus
genus Aspidelaps
genus Aspidiotus
genus Aspidistra
genus Aspidophoroides
genus Aspis
genus Asplenium (current term)
genus Astacus
genus Aster
genus Astilbe
genus Astragalus
genus Astrantia
genus Astreus
genus Astroloma
genus Astronium
genus Astrophyton
genus Astropogon
genus Ateles
genus Athene
genus Atherinopsis
genus Atherurus

Literary usage of Genus Asplenium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"Recent writers have, with as little hesitation, taken Filix foemina from the genus Polypodium, and placed it in the genus Asplenium. ..."

2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1903)
"... and the more divided members of the genus Asplenium, now distributed among several genera but, with perhaps a single exception, all members of the tribe ..."

3. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"THIS is another example of a solitary Fern, having been separated from the genus Asplenium. In its characters it seems intermediate between Asplenium and ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The genus Asplenium has had a long life-period upon the earth, it having appeared first during Middle Jurassic time, since which period it has spread over ..."

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