Asplenium polyodon
indigenousAspleniaceae

Asplenium polyodon

Mare's Tail Fern

Indigenous (native)native

Native to Hawaiʻi and arrived without human help.

Asplenium polyodon, commonly known as sickle spleenwort, is a species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae. The distribution of A. polyodon includes parts of the countries of Australia and New Zealand. A specific locale of occurrence is in forested areas of Westland, New Zealand, where associate understory species include Crown Fern, Blechnum discolor.

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Seasonality

Only 0 phenology-annotated observations exist for this species in Hawaiʻi — too few to describe a season. No window is inferred.

Gallery · 11 · iNaturalist
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Where documented · 68 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 183 · GBIF 235 records
Waimea · KauaʻiiNat 49 · GBIF 78 ✓
Keauhou · HawaiʻiiNat 35 · GBIF 20 ✓
Waiākea · HawaiʻiiNat 23 · GBIF 18 ✓
ʻŌlaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 11 · GBIF 6 ✓
Wainiha · KauaʻiiNat 6 · GBIF 10 ✓
Kalialinui · MauiiNat 4 · GBIF 7 ✓
Makawao · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 9 ✓
Humuʻula · HawaiʻiiNat 5 · GBIF 2 ✓
Paukaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 3 ✓
Puʻukapu · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 5 ✓
Makaweli · KauaʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 4 ✓
Kalopā · HawaiʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 2 ✓
Pāpaʻikou · HawaiʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kalalau · KauaʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 2 ✓
ʻAlaenui · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Keaʻau · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kahuku · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Mākaha · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Hakalau · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kawaihae 2 · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kealakehe · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Pānauinui · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Puʻuwaʻawaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Honolulu · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Honopou · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Pōhakuao · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Waiʻanae · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Honopū · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Waiea · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓