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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on May 4 2010)

Hart's-tongue fern
Asplenium scolopendrium L. [Aspleniaceae]

Kotaniwatari (コタニワタリ, 小谷渡)

Etymology: scolopendra = centipede in Greek
Life form: evergreen fern
Distribution: Africa - Europe - Asia (Korea, Japan, and Sakhalin) - eastern North America (scattered) (discontinuous distribution)
Habitat: mesic broad-leaved forest

Synonyms

Phyllitis scolopendrium (L.) Newman


Asplenium scolopendrium in Hokkaido

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[Left] a foliage. [Center] close-up of the base of frond. [Right] sori. On the north slope of Mount Sankaku, Sapporo City, On April 17 2010.


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