Hymenasplenium


Hymenasplenium is one of three genera of ferns in the Aspleniaceae, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales. The others are Hemidictyum and Asplenium. Hymenasplenium was segregated because it is a natural grouping with differing rhizome morphology – dorsiventral v. radial for the rest of Asplenium, differing chromosome count – x=39 v. x=36 for the rest of Asplenium, and a clear monophyletic grouping based on genetic analysis. It was confirmed as a sister group to Asplenium in a 2015 molecular study of the genera.

List of species

, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the sixty-seven species and three hybrids below.