Asplenium aethiopicum (Burm. f.) Bech., Candollea 6: 22 1935. (syn: Asplenium adiantoides (L.) C.Chr. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium adiantoides (L.) Lam. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium aemilii-guineae Alston; Asplenium cultratum Gaud. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium cuneatum Hook. & Grev. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium dentex Kunze (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium denticulatum Bl. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium falsum Retz.; Asplenium fragrans Schkuhr (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium furcatum Thunb. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium furcatum f. platyphyllum Kunze; Asplenium hirsutum Heyne; Asplenium intermedium Kaulf. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium lanceolatum Forsk. (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium nigricans Kunze (ambiguous synonym); Asplenium praemorsum var. angustitripinnatum Bonap.; Asplenium praemorsum var. furcatum (Thunb.) T.B.Moore; Asplenium rhipidoneuron Robinson; Asplenium tripartitum Bl.; Asplenium vinsonii Cord.; Chamaefilix adiantioides (L.) Farw.; Tarachia adiantoides (L.) Nakai ex Tuyama; Tarachia browniana C.Presl; Tarachia furcata (Thunb.) C.Presl; Tarachia nigricans C.Presl; Trichomanes adiantoides L.; Trichomanes aethiopicum Burm.fil.);
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Tropical & Subtropical Old World to Pacific: Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Free State, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Vanuatu, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO;
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Morocco, N-Chad (Tibesti), Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, ?Ivory Coast, ?Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), So Tom, Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni), Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Central African Republic, D.R. Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa (widespread except N-Cape Prov.), Swaziland, Lesotho, Socotra, St. Helena, Mauritius, La Runion, Madagascar, Comoros (Anjouan, Grande Comore, Mayotte), Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam State, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu), Bangladesh, Andaman Isl., Sulawesi, Moluccas (Seram), ?Thailand, Myanmar [Burma], Vietnam, peninsular Malaysia, Java, Philippines, China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi), New Guinea, Moluccas (Seram, etc.), Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Wetar, Timor, Alor), Australia (SE-Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, SW-Western Australia), Bonin Isl. (Chichijima, Hahajima), Volcano Isl. (Minami-Iwojima), Hawaii (Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Hawaii Isl.), Southern Marianas (Guam, Rota Isl., Saipan, Tinian), Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Fulaga, Gau, Kabara, Kadavu, Koro, Naigani, Taveuni, Vanua Balavu, Waya), Rotuma Isl., Palau Isl. (Koror, Aulupse’el, Urukthapel, Ngeanges, Ulong, Eil Malk, Angaur), Micronesia (Fais, Kosrae), Tonga (Late Isl., Tongatapu, ‘Eua, Vava’u, Niuafo’ou, Tafahi), American Samoa (Tutuila, Ta’u), Western Samoa (Savaii, Upolu), Society Isl. (Tahiti, Bora Bora), Austral Isl. (Rapa Iti, Tubuai), Niue, Society Isl. (Tahiti), New Caledonia as per Catalogue of Life;
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Asplenium furcratum SN16420b : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 4 mb.
Asplenium furcratum J Sm, wild dwarf fern from Western Ghats Tamilnadu from my 34 year old collection.


Must be 34 yr. old nomenclature, too!  The correct name is Asplenium aethiopicum subsp. aethiopicum


And the synonym is spelt FURCATUM, not furcratum. Was there no literature available for these mistaken identifications and misnamings?  Have you not got Manickam & Irudayaraj? And the Annotated Checklist of Indian pteridophytes?


 

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