Asplenium hemionitisL.

WFO wfo-0001114329 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Christina s.l.
fig. a Christina s.l., CC BY 4.0 / 2018-03-22 / obs. 186211602
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14632559
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14632491
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Dr. Guido Bohne
fig. d Dr. Guido Bohne, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38004727
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Simon Rolph
fig. e Simon Rolph, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23595639
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175256184
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Christina s.l.
fig. g Christina s.l., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184605173
Asplenium hemionitis, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. h Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173319708

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3909236
Filed as
Asplenium hemionitis L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Asplenium hemionitis is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira, Morocco, Portugal AlgeriaMoroccoPortugal AzoresCanary Is.Cape VerdeMadeira
Native distribution of Asplenium hemionitis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Portugal POR EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 517 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.5 °C 13.6 °C 16.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.8 °C 23.0 °C 24.1 °C
Annual rainfall 367 mm 491 mm 1,529 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 9 mm 19 mm 172 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 517 research-grade observations of Asplenium hemionitis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Asplenium hastatum Bory ex Munby
  • Asplenium hemionitis var. productum Bolle
  • Asplenium hemionitis var. rotundatum Peter
  • Asplenium palmatum Lam.
  • Asplenium palmatum var. cristatum Veitch
  • Chamaefilix hemionitis Farw.
  • Phyllitis hemionitis (Lag.) Kuntze
  • Phyllitis palmata Samp.
  • Scolopendrium breve Bertol.
  • Scolopendrium cordatum Fée
  • Scolopendrium hemionitis Lag., Garcia & Clem.
  • Scolopendrium minus Fée
  • Tarachia palmata C.Presl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.