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Asplenium tenerum

A small, once-pinnate spleenwort that grows on tree trunks and mossy rocks in wet tropical forest from Taiwan and Southeast Asia through Melanesia and the Pacific islands, with outliers in Queensland and the Seychelles. It is a warm-growing shade fern of humid lowland and lower montane rainforest. Its needs are best inferred from its many herbarium labels, since no detailed ecological study was found.

Asplenium tenerum
Photo: Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Grows on live bark of trunks and vines, on dead bark, and on mossy rocks and boulders in lowland and lower montane evergreen rainforest, including ravine forest, streamside wet forest, limestone and ultramafic forest, and regrowth forest.

GBIF labels run from near sea level to about 1,980 m, with most between about 200 and 1,160 m.

TaiwanSouthern ChinaIndochinaMalesiaPhilippinesNew GuineaSolomon IslandsQueenslandPacific islandsSeychelles

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY 4.0 licence, unmodified.