Navigation	Search for a plant:

Asplenium ceterach  L.

APG-Fam.: Aspleniaceae / Spleenwort Fern Fam.       Fam. tradit.: Pteridopsida / True Ferns

Synon.:  Ceterach officinarum  WILLD.

Genus:  Asplenium  L.,  Ceterach  GARSAULT

Authors:
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
	WILLD.:		Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 - 1812), German botanist
	GARSAULT:		François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault (1691 - 1778), French painter and botanist

Etymology:
	Asplenium:		a = not, splenon = milt (against milt disease)
	ceterach:		Arabic word for surgeon
	Ceterach:		Arabic plant name
	officinarum:		used in pharmacies

Fig. 1:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern D Walldorf 2.11.2007

Fig. 2:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern D Walldorf 2.11.2007

Fig. 3:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern D Walldorf 2.11.2007

Fig. 4:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern D Walldorf 25.4.2018

Fig. 5:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern D Ettlingen 26.6.2016

Fig. 6:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (young plant) D Ettlingen 26.6.2016

Fig. 7:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (young plant) D Ettlingen 26.6.2016

Fig. 8:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (young plant) D Ettlingen 26.6.2016

Fig. 9:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (young plant) D Ettlingen 3.10.2015

Fig. 10:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (young plant) D Heimbach 24.5.2018

Fig. 11:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (marred by dryness) D Klingenberg am Main 24.6.2017

Fig. 12:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern (marred by dryness) Samos, Zoodochos Pigi 11.4.2017

Fig. 13:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern IRL Burren, Fanore 15.6.2012

Fig. 14:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern F La Turbie 7.10.2021

Fig. 15:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern Rhodos, Kolymbia 20.3.2005

Fig. 16:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern Crete, Tilisos 11.4.1990

Fig. 17:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern Crete, Aradena 4.4.2015

Fig. 18:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern I Süd-Tirol, Laces 27.6.1993

Fig. 19:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern I Liguria, Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena 19.5.2013

Fig. 20:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern I Liguria, Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena 19.5.2013

Fig. 21:  Asplenium ceterach / Rustyback, Scale Fern Chios, Vessa 1.4.2016

To top

Start page

Contents

Orchids

Other Plants

Plants acc. to Families

.. Relationship:

APG

trad.

.. Scientific Names

.. German Names

.. English Names

.. Bloom Colors

.. Flower Anatomy

.. Leaf Form

.. Regions

.. Photo Month

.. Fruits + Seed

.. Roots + Bulbs

Pest Infestation + Deformations

Trees

Bushes

Water Plants

Climbers + Twiners

Useful Pl.

Ornamental Pl.

Color Var.

Multiple Criteria

Biotopes + Groups

Botan.Links

Copyright: Use of the images and texts only with the author's written permission.