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|accepted_name=Asplenium ruta-muraria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1081. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=Wall rue;doradille des murailles
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|name=Asplenium cryptolepis
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
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|name=Asplenium cryptolepis var. ohionis
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
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|name=Asplenium ruta-muraria var. cryptolepis
|authority=(Fernald) Wherry
|rank=variety
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|hierarchy=Aspleniaceae;Asplenium;Asplenium ruta-muraria
|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 ruta-muraria]]</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> short-creeping to erect, often branched; scales very dark brown throughout, narrowly deltate, 1–3 × 0.1–0.25 mm, margins with widely spaced teeth. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic. <b>Petiole</b> reddish brown proximally, green distally, dull, 1–9 cm, (1/2–)1–2 times length of blade; indument of dark brown, narrowly deltate scales proximally grading into multicellular hairs. <b>Blade</b> deltate-ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, 1–2(–3)-pinnate to 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, 2–6 × 1–4 cm, somewhat thick, glabrous; base obtuse; apex acute to rounded, not rooting. <b>Rachis</b> green, dull, glabrous except for very sparse, minute hairs. <b>Pinnae</b> in 2–4 pairs, deltate-ovate to obdeltate; proximal (largest) pinnae 7–30 × 5–20 mm; base truncate to acute; margins finely (sometimes coarsely) incised; apex rounded to acute. <b>Veins</b> free, evident. <b>Sori</b> as many as 30 or more per pinna, usually 1–5 per segment, on both basiscopic and acroscopic sides. <b>Spores</b> 64 per sporangium. <b>2n</b> = 144.</span><!--

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|habitat=Limestone (or calcareous shale) cliffs and boulders, rarely invading masonry
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe;e Asia.
|discussion=<p>The relationship of North American <i>Asplenium ruta-muraria</i> to its European counterparts is incompletely understood and bears further investigation. Based on features of the stems, M. L. Fernald (1928) segregated the North American taxon as A. cryptolepis, but most current authors agree that morphologic differentiation of North American and European material is too slight and inconsistent for recognition at the specific level. In Europe, two ploidy levels are treated as subspecies, diploid <i>A. ruta-muraria</i> subsp. dolomiticum Lovis & Reichstein and tetraploid <i>A. ruta-muraria</i> subsp. ruta-muraria, the latter representing the most compelling case for true autopolyploidy (i.e., based on chromosomal homology) known in ferns (G. Vida 1970). Chromosome counts of North American plants are consistently tetraploid; whether or not these plants are referable to subsp. ruta-muraria will remain unclear until additional evidence (e.g., isozymes) is obtained. Meanwhile, North American material should be designated simply as <i>A. ruta-muraria</i>, the convention used in most current manuals.</p><!--
--><p>Although M. L. Fernald (1928) recognized <i>Asplenium</i> cryptolepis var. ohionis (= <i>A. ruta-muraria</i> var. subtenuifolium Christ), based on its acute rather than rounded segment apices, leaves assignable to this variety may occur on plants also bearing leaves more similar to those of the type variety (R. Cranfill 1980). The former is not recognized taxonomically here.</p><!--
--><p>Numerous hybrids of <i>Asplenium ruta-muraria</i> with various taxa are known from Europe (T. Reichstein 1981), but only three are known from North America, all exceedingly rare. These are the hybrids with <i>A. rhizophyllum</i> (A. × inexpectatum), with <i>A. trichomanes</i> (A. × clermontae Syme), and with <i>A. platyneuron</i> (A. × morganii).</p>
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name=Asplenium ruta-muraria
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Asplenium cryptolepis;Asplenium cryptolepis var. ohionis;Asplenium ruta-muraria var. cryptolepis
|basionyms=
|family=Aspleniaceae
|habitat=Limestone (or calcareous shale) cliffs and boulders, rarely invading masonry
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe;e Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Asplenium
|species=Asplenium ruta-muraria
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