''Asplenium marinum'' is a
fern known as the sea spleenwort because of its preference for
maritime habitats. Located around the coasts of Europe from Italy in the South to Norway in the North, its most Southern distribution extends to the Northern islands of Tunisia (
Galitte islands).
Linnaeus was the first to
describe sea spleenwort with the
binomial ''Asplenium marinum'' in his ''
Species Plantarum
' (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera. It is the first work to consistently apply binomial names and was the ...
'' of 1753.
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marinum
Plants described in 1753
Ferns of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus