Asplenium simplicifrons (Aspleniaceae)

Aptly named the Narrow-leaf Bird’s Nest Fern, this epiphyte or lithophyte is restricted to rainforests and does not seem to be as common as the larger A. nidus or A. australasicum. However, it is always a pleasure to spot this fern and it makes for a beautiful ornamental plant to grown in shaded gardens.

Like the two other related bird nest fern Aspleniums, the fronds of this fern are simple and the sori (the spore-bearing structures) are linear and slit-like and stretches from the midrib to near the leaf margin.

See iNaturalist observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47249660

About David Tng

I am David Tng, a hedonistic botanizer who pursues plants with a fervour. I chase the opportunity to delve into various aspects of the study of plants. I have spent untold hours staring at mosses and allied plants, taking picture of pollen, culturing orchids in clean cabinets, counting tree rings, monitoring plant flowering times, etc. I am currently engrossed in the study of plant ecology (a grand excuse to see 'anything I can). Sometimes I think of myself as a shadow taxonomist, a sentimental ecologist, and a spiritual environmentalist - but at the very root of it all, a "plant whisperer"!
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