Biology:Marattia

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Short description: Genus of ferns

Marattia
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Marattia douglasii
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Marattiales
Family: Marattiaceae
Genus: Marattia
Swartz
Type species
Marattia alata
Swartz
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Celanthera Thouin
  • Myriotheca Commerson ex de Jussieu non Zeiller
  • Discostegia Presl
  • Stibasia Presl
  • Angiopteridium Schimper

Marattia is a small genus of primitive, large, fleshy eusporangiate ferns. It is the type genus of the family Marattiaceae, order Marattiales and class Marattiopsida.[1] Formerly considered to be a much larger genus, genetic analysis has shown that Marattia in the broad sense was paraphyletic, and subsequently the genera Ptisana and Eupodium were split off.[2][3] Except for one species in Hawaii, the genus is neotropical.

The plants are large and terrestrial, with more or less erect rhizomes and fronds being 2-5 times pinnate. Sporangia are fused into synangia, and spores are monolete.

Basal chromosome count is 2n=80. The type species is M. alata.

Species list

  • Marattia alata Sw. – Jamaica and Cuba
  • Marattia douglasii (C. Presl) Baker – pala, kapua ilio, or Hawaii potato fern; Hawaii
  • Marattia excavata Underw. – Mexico to Panama
  • Marattia interposita Christ – Guatemala to Panama
  • Marattia laxa Kunze – Mexico to Panama
  • Marattia weinmanniifolia Liebm. – southern Mexico to El Salvador

Phylogeny of Marattia[4][5]

M. douglasii

M. laxa

M. alata

M. weinmanniifolia

References

  1. Smith, Alan R.; Kathleen M. Pryer; Eric Schuettpelz; Petra Korall; Harald Schneider; Paul G. Wolf (2006). "A classification for extant ferns". Taxon 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646. http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf. 
  2. Murdock, Andrew G. (2008). "Phylogeny of marattioid ferns (Marattiaceae) inferring a root in the absence of a closely related outgroup". American Journal of Botany 95 (5): 626–641. doi:10.3732/ajb.2007308. PMID 21632388. 
  3. Murdock, Andrew G. (2008). "A taxonomic revision of the eusporangiate fern family Marattiaceae, with description of a new genus Ptisana". Taxon 57 (3): 737–755. doi:10.1002/tax.573007. 
  4. Nitta, Joel H.Expression error: Unrecognized word "et". (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMID 36092417. 
  5. "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". 2022. https://fernphy.github.io/viewer.html. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6755059 entry