Family |
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium ruta-muraria
L.
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, Pl. IV nº 6; 1966)
Life-form & habit: Perennial fern with creeping rhizome bearing dark brown scales.
Leaves: Fronds 2–10 cm long; petiole longer than the blade, brown at base, green above. Blade triangular, ovate, or elongate, thick, dark green, opaque.
Segments: 2–5 pairs, petiolulate, pinnatisect or pinnatilobed (sometimes bipinnatisect elsewhere), with lobed, sessile or petiolulate, obovate pinnules.
Sori: Cover nearly the entire underside of the segments at maturity. Indusia with fringed margins.
Phenology: Fructifies in summer.
Habitat & elevation: Rocky mountain outcrops.
Lebanese distribution: Mm. Dimane, Cedars, Forest of Qamou‘a, Jisr-el-Hajar; Me. summit of Jabal Kneissé, Jabal Sannine, Yammouné to Dimane, ‘Aïn el-Qarn above Ehden, summit of Makmel.
Syrian distribution: A.L. Birket Foukhté.
Native range: Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Arkansas, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Ontario, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tennessee, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya. (KEW)