Biology:Niphidium

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Short description: Genus of ferns

Niphidium
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Niphidium crassifolium in Panama
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Polypodiineae
Family: Polypodiaceae
Subfamily: Polypodioideae
Genus: Niphidium
J.Sm.[1][2]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • (C.Presl) Fée Underw.ex Maxon
  • Anaxetum Pessopteris
  • Schott Pleuridium

Niphidium is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Polypodioideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[3] They are native to tropical America.[1]

Species

(As of February 2020), Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted the following species:[1]

  • Niphidium albopunctatissimum (J.Sm.) Lellinger
  • Niphidium anocarpos (Kunze) Lellinger
  • Niphidium carinatum Lellinger
  • Niphidium crassifolium (L.) Lellinger
  • Niphidium longifolium (Cav.) C.V.Morton & Lellinger
  • Niphidium macbridei Lellinger
  • Niphidium mortonianum Lellinger
  • Niphidium nidulare (Rosenst.) Lellinger
  • Niphidium oblanceolatum A.Rojas
  • Niphidium rufosquamatum Lellinger
  • Niphidium vittaria (Mett.) Lellinger

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hassler, Michael; Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020), "Niphidium", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, Version 8.20, https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/, retrieved 2020-02-15 
  2. Smith, John (1875), Historia Filicum (an exposition of the nature, number, and organography of ferns): 99
  3. PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5946543 entry