Florida State University, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium (FSU)
000145175
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Asplenium plenum E.P. St. John ex Small
Aspleniaceae
S. W. Leonard
7952
1983-01-01
1983-1-1
United States, Florida, Sumter, boulders at "Rocky Point", ca. 1 mi. north of Wahoo and just beyond the end of a private woodland road
Scarce; on jumbled limestone boulders; Note: the collections from the site which I have called "Rocky Point" which is the name given to it by long-time resident, Frank Roesel, seems to be the place where Darling visited and described (Amer. Fern Jour. 51:1) as "Indian Field Ledges". Darling's collections of Aspleniums were sent to Univ. of MIch. and subsequently used for research materials--the results published by Virginia Morzenti (Amer. Jour. Bot. 54:9). Additional collections by Lakela from this site are at USF. Darling along with E.S. Ford claim that the Wahoo locality is the same as that described by the St. Johns. According to the Sumter County highway map, Indian Field is located about 4 miles north of Rocky Point, on a bluff at the confluence of Otter Slough and the Withlacoochee River. If the St. Johns were traveling by boat, it is probable that the Indian Field Ledges that they visited is not the Rocky Point site. I mention this in passing, in view of the considerable rarity of Asplenium plenum, endemic to central Florida, and with the hopeful presumption that another station for this species exists in Sumter County. s1/11 Jan. 1983