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Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Critically Endangered
Nativeness: Endemic
A tiny fern with small parsley-like fronds that grows on moderately dry to wet banks and outcrops on the exposed south-facing slopes of Green Mountain.
Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Vulnerable
Nativeness: Endemic
A small, creeping fern generally found in crevices on damp to moderately dry cinder banks and rock faces around the middle elevations of Green Mountain.
Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Critically Endangered
Nativeness: Endemic
A perennial, dwarf shrub that forms low hemispherical domes, occuring on arid cinder plains and scoria cones at lower elevations.
Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Critically Endangered
Nativeness: Endemic
A small to medium-sized fern forming shuttlecock shaped tufts, generally found growing in rock crevices or on cliffs in sheltered valleys around the foot slopes of Green Mountain.
Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Critically Endangered
Nativeness: Endemic
A small, perennial, tuft forming grass found on damp, wind-exposed banks and outcrops around on the upper slopes of Green Mountain.
Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Critically Endangered
Nativeness: Endemic
This is a tiny fern with linear, narrow laminae (fronds) which grows as a lithophyte on damp, wind-exposed banks and rocks.
Type: Endemic Plant
Status: Critically Endangered
Nativeness: Endemic
This imposing fern is the largest of Ascension Island’s endemic plant species, with dark green, twice pinnate fronds up to 1m in length.
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