the ending
Where did the i in asplenium go?
asplenum is the word with a syllable missing.
the ending
Four syllables go past quickly and the third is the quietest of them. At any speed the word comes out as a-SPLEE-nyum, and the i survives only as the y sound gluing the end together. Written down it has to come back, because that i is the whole of the third syllable.
The class
The last syllable, where botanical Latin keeps letters that speech drops.
Same name
Other spellings recorded for asplenium
The name