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Polypodiaceae J. Presl & C. Presl, Delic. Prag.

  • 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 48. Polypodiaceae J.Presl & C.Presl, Delic. Prag.: 159 (1822).

Grammitidaceae Newm., Hist. Brit. Ferns: 7 (1840).

Gymnogrammitidaceae Ching in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 11: 12 (1966).

Loxogrammaceae Ching ex Pic.Serm. in Webbia 29: 11 (1975).

Drynariaceae Ching in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16: 19 (1978).

Platyceriaceae Ching in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16: 18 (1978).

Pleurisoriopsidaceae Kurita & Ikebe ex Ching in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16: (1978).

50–80 genera (64 tentatively accepted here).

References: Janssen & Schneider (2005), Kreier et al. (2008), Labiak et al. (2010a, b), Otto et al. (2009), Parris (2007), Ranker (2004), Schneider et al. (2004a, c, 2006a, b, 2008, 2010), Smith et al. (2006b), Wang et al. (2010a, b).

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 18, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4893995

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
J. Presl & C. Presl, Delic. Prag.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Polypodiaceae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Janssen, T. & Schneider H. (2005) Exploring the evolution of humus collecting leaves in drynarioid ferns (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiidae). Plant Systeamtics and Evolution 252: 175 - 197.
  • Kreier, H. - P., Zhang, X. - C., Muth, H. & Schneider, H. (2008) The microsoroid ferns: Inferring the relationships of a highly diverse lineage of paleotropical epiphytic ferns (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiopsida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 1155 - 1167.
  • Labiak, P. H., Rouhan, M. & Sundue, M. (2010 a) Phylogeny and taxonomy of Leucotrichum (Polypodiaceae): a new genus of grammitid ferns from the Neotropics. Taxon 59: 911 - 921.
  • Otto, E. M., Janssen, T., Kreier, H. - P. & Schneider, H. (2009) New insights into the phylogeny of Pleopeltis and related Neotropical genera (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiopsida) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53: 190 - 201.
  • Parris, B. S. (2007) Five new genera and three new species of Grammitidaceae (Filicales) and the re-establishment of Oreogrammitis. The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 58: 233 - 274.
  • Ranker, T. A., Smith, A. R., Parris, B. S., Geiger, J. M. O., Haufler, C. H., Straub, S. C. K. & Schneider, H. (2004) Phylogeny and evolution of grammitid ferns (Grammitidaceae): a case of rampant morphological homoplasy. Taxon 53: 415 - 428.
  • Schneider, H., Smith, A. R., Cranfill, R., Hildebrand, T., Haufler, C. H., & Ranker, T. A. (2004 a) Unraveling the phylogeny of the polygrammoid ferns (Polypodiaceae and Grammitidaceae): Exploring aspects of the diversification of epiphytic plants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 1041 - 1063.
  • Smith, A. R., Kreier, H. - P., Haufler, C. H., Ranker, T. A. & Schneider H. (2006 b) Serpocaulon (Polypodiaceae), a new segregate from Polypodium. Taxon 55: 919 - 930.
  • Wang, L., Qi, X. - P., Xiang, Q. - P., Heinrichs, J., Schneider, H. & Zhang, X. - C. (2010 a) Phylogeny of the paleotropical fern genus Lepisorus (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiopsida) inferred from four chloroplast regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 211 - 225.