This little fern isn't difficult to find amongst the rocks in Snowdonia but is easily overlooked as the green central rib (rachis) is the main distinguishing feature from A. trchomanes. It has also been the subject of taxonomic messing. When I started botanising it was A. viride, then it changed to the grossly cumbersome Asplenium trichomanes ramosum and now Professor Stace has it back to where it started. Terrific.
Cwm Idwal 9th May 2001
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