Published February 18, 2011 | Version v1

Nephrolepidaceae Pic. Serm.

  • 1. Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Postbox 7, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. & Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People's Republic of China. E-mail: zhangxc @ ibcas. ac. cn
  • 3. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.

Description

Family 44. Nephrolepidaceae Pic.Serm., Webbia 29: 8 (1975).

1 genus (Nephrolepis).

References: Hennequin et al. (2010), Hovenkamp & Miyamoto (2005).

Note:—The genus Nephrolepis has always been difficult to place. It has previously been associated with Davalliaceae and Oleandraceae (Kramer & Green 1990). Smith (2006a, 2008) places it in Lomariopsidaceae, which shares the articulate pinnae. This association is however not satisfactory because the exact phylogenetic placement is still uncertain. We therefore place it tentatively in its own family until further data are available.

Notes

Published as part of Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Zhang, Xian-Chun & Schneider, Harald, 2011, A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns, pp. 7-54 in Phytotaxa 19 on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4893995

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pic. Serm.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Nephrolepidaceae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Hennequin, S., Hovenkamp, P., Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Schneider, H. (2010) Phylogeny and biogeography of Nephrolepis - a tale of old settlers and young tramps. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 164: 113 - 127.
  • Hovenkamp, P. H. & Miyamoto, F. (2005) A conspectus of the native and naturalized species of Nephrolepis (Nephrolepidaceae) in the world. Blumea 50: 279 - 322.
  • Kramer, K. U. & Green, P. S. (1990) Pteridophytes and gymnosperms, in: Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The families and genera of vascular plants, vol. 1. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 1 - 404.
  • Smith, A. R., Pryer, K. M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P. G. (2006 a) A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55: 705 - 731.
  • Smith, A. R., Pryer, K. M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H., & Wolf, P. G. (2008) Fern classification, pp. 417 - 467 in: Ranker, T. A., & Haufler, C. H. (eds.), Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.