Asplenium majoricum Litard.

Spice Leaves In the field

Family: ASPLENIACEAE

Genus: Asplenium

Sinònims: Asplenium petrarchae (Guérin) DC. subsp. majoricum (R. Litard.) O. Bolòs et Vigo

Catalan common name: Falzia.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean (Iberico-balearic)

IUCN Category: VUVulnerable

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Rock crevices and cliff faces. Rocky surfaces and dry stone walls. Rock creviceses and walls.

Characteristics: A fern with fronds reaching to 12 cm in length. Lamina is elliptic to oblonglanceolate (more long than wide) a clear gren in colour (2 pinnae or 2 divisions. Pinnae oblong or in the form of an egg ovate), alternate and pinnules cuniform (wedge shaped with straight edges, convergent on the leaf reverse). Sorus are small and more long than wide with lateral indusium.