Scientific name:
Asplenium viride General: Densely tufted from short, scaly rhizomes, soft not evergreen, small; leaves to 14 cm tall; old stipes and leaf axes persist for years.
Leaves: Bright-green (reddish-brown at base) stipes; blades long and narrow, once-pinnate; leaflets oval to round, round-toothed, opposite at base, becoming alternate upwards.
Sori: Several, elongate, in sausage-like lines along veins on the underside of the leaflets; indusium membranous, attached along 1 side of the sorus, delicate, tending to disappear as sorus ripens.
Ecology: In moist, shaded, sheltered crevices on rocky limestone (or other basic rock) bluffs or talus slopes; middle to alpine elevations.