The Macaronesian representatives of the Asplenium aethiopicum complex (Aspleniaceae, Pteridophyta): A. aethiopicum subsp. braithwaitii, subsp. nov., and A. filare subsp. canariense, Comb. et Stat. nov.

Abstract

Earlier cytological studies of Asplenium aethiopicum complex from the Macaronesian Islands have shown that the Madeiran representatives are sexual dodecaploids while the Canarian ones are apomictic hexaploids. The results of a previous morphological study