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|accepted_name=Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum
|accepted_authority=(Fernald) Kartesz & Gandhi
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=70: 196. 1991
|year=1991
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|common_names=American hart's-tongue
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phyllitis scolopendrium var. americanum
|authority=Fernald
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phyllitis fernaldiana
|authority=Komarov
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|name=Phyllitis japonica subsp. americana
|authority=(Fernald) A. Löve & D. Löve
}}
|hierarchy=Aspleniaceae;Asplenium;Asplenium scolopendrium;Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aspleniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Asplenium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Asplenium scolopendrium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Roots </b>not proliferous. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched; scales brown, lanceolate, 3–6 × 1–1.5 mm, margins entire. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic. <b>Petiole</b> brown to straw-colored, dull, 3–10 cm, 1/8–1/4 length of blade; indument of brown, narrowly lanceolate scales. <b>Blade</b> linear, simple, 8–35 × 2–4.5 cm, thick, papery, nearly glabrous; base cordate; margins entire; apex acuminate, not rooting. <b>Rachis</b> brown proximally, straw-colored distally, dull, glabrous. <b>Veins</b> free, obscure. <b>Sori</b> numerous, perpendicular to rachis, or nearly so, usually restricted to distal 1/2 of blade. <b>Spores</b> 64 per sporangium. <b>Usually</b> 2n = 144.</span><!--

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|habitat=On calcareous rocks in sinkholes, at cave entrances, and on cool, moist talus, always in deep shade
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Mich.;N.Y.;Tenn.;Mexico in Nuevo León.
|discussion=<p>Asplenium scolopendrium is rare and has a spotty distribution in North America. Consequently, when new populations are found, they receive considerable attention from pteridologists.</p><!--
--><p>The American variety was distinguished from the European plants by M. L. Fernald (1935, pp. 220–221) on the basis of their smaller leaves, narrower scales with longer, attenuate tips, more promptly glabrate midribs, and blades tending to bear sori in the distal half rather than the entire length. In addition, M. L. Arreguín-Sánchez and R. Aguirre-Claverán (1986, pp. 400, 402) listed two differences in perispore morphology of the two varieties; they did not say how many specimens were studied. The most clear-cut difference is that the American plants are tetraploid and the European plants are diploid (D. M. Britton 1953), a difference insufficient for recognition of this taxon at specific rank (W. H. Wagner Jr. 1955b). More work is needed to determine if Asplenium scolopendrium var. lindenii (Hooker) Viane, Rasbach, & Reichstein, which occurs in southern Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas) and Hispaniola, is distinguishable from var. americanum.</p>
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name=Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum
|author=
|authority=(Fernald) Kartesz & Gandhi
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Phyllitis fernaldiana;Phyllitis japonica subsp. americana
|basionyms=Phyllitis scolopendrium var. americanum
|family=Aspleniaceae
|habitat=On calcareous rocks in sinkholes, at cave entrances, and on cool, moist talus, always in deep shade
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Mich.;N.Y.;Tenn.;Mexico in Nuevo León.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1991
|special status=
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|genus=Asplenium
|species=Asplenium scolopendrium
|variety=Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum
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