Asplenium marinumL.

WFO wfo-0001113332 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Asplenium marinum, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. a Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / 2021-11-08 / obs. 168051387

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4046688
Filed as
Asplenium marinum L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Asplenium marinum is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira, Morocco, Selvagens, Tunisia, Baleares, Corse, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoSelvagensTunisiaCorseFranceIrelandItalyPortugalSiciliaSpain AzoresCanary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Asplenium marinum, 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
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Selvagens SEL
Tunisia TUN

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 1,199 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.3 °C 7.1 °C 13.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.1 °C 18.7 °C 23.9 °C
Annual rainfall 687 mm 1,149 mm 1,925 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 95 mm 158 mm 271 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,199 research-grade observations of Asplenium marinum 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 9 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.

  • Adiantum trapeziforme Huds.
  • Asplenium marinum f. incisum (Christ) R.C.Moran & Salvo
  • Asplenium marinum var. depauperatum T.E.Díaz & Salvo
  • Asplenium marinum var. incisum Christ
  • Asplenium marinum var. majus Milde
  • Asplenium marinum var. minus Link
  • Asplenium marinum var. praealtum T.E.Díaz & Salvo
  • Asplenium marinum var. trapeziforme Gray
  • Trichomanes maritimum Bubani

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.