Asplenium ecuadorense
A little-known spleenwort endemic to Ecuador, listed as Near Threatened because of habitat loss. Herbarium labels describe it as an epiphyte in forested ravines along streams, and as hanging from moist, shaded rock in montane forest. The records span a very wide elevation range, from 100 m to over 2500 m. Grow it as a shade-loving, humidity-dependent fern with steady moisture and mild temperatures.
Where it grows wild
Collectors recorded it as an epiphyte in a forested ravine along a stream on the Zamora–Romerillo road at 1350 m. On the Yangana–Valladolid road, in montane forest along a ravine at 2550 m, it was hanging from moist rock in shade. It was also found in seasonal rain forest near Flavio Alfaro at 100 m, and as an epiphytic fern on the Centinela ridge at about 430 m. Wikipedia gives moist lowland and montane tropical forest.
Recorded elevations run from 100 to about 2720 m, with the median at 2550 m. Records fall into two groups: western lowland and foothill sites (100–430 m) and southern and central Andean sites (1350–2720 m).
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