Biology:Dipteris
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Gleicheniales |
| Family: | Dipteridaceae |
| Genus: | Dipteris Reinw. |
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| Dipteris conjugata Reinwardt
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Dipteris is a genus of about seven species of ferns, native to tropical regions across the world, particularly Asia, with a species in northeastern Queensland in Australia . It is one of two genera in the family Dipteridaceae.
Description
Species of Dipteris grow from creeping rhizomes,[1] and have large stalks to the sporangium and annulus.[2] The rhizomes have bristles (or hairs) and the fronds have uniseriate hairs (having one line or series).[3] All species of Dipteris have spore-capsules that are carried on the lower surface of the broad lobed frond.[4] The fronds can reach up to 50 cm long.[5]
Taxonomy
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt first published the genus in 1825,[6] by describing Dipteris conjugata Reinw.[7] which is the best known species.[8]
In 1839, R. Brown reduced the genus to a subgenus of Polypodium.[9] In 1901, Konrad Christ published Die Farnkrauter der Erde't, within which he included the genus Dipteris in the family Polypodiaceae, (a subdivision of the Polypodiacea).[10] It was then later placed into a separate genus,[4][5] Bower (1928), Ching (1940) and Pichi-Sermolli (1958) all having recreated the family Dipteridaceae, then comprising only one genus, Dipteris,[11] due to the differences in sporangium, stomata and gametophte.[3]
The Latin genus name Dipteris refers to an amalgamation of two terms: di meaning two, and pteris Greek word used for ferns generally, meaning wing-like.[12]
Species
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(As of October 2019), Plants of the World Online and the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized seven species:[15][16]
- Dipteris chinensis Christ – Tropical Asia and Australasia
- Dipteris conjugata Reinw. – Indochina to Australia (Queensland), and some islands in the Pacific Ocean
- Dipteris lobbiana (Hook.) T. Moore – Cuba, Hispaniola
- Dipteris nieuwenhuisii Christ
- Dipteris novoguineensis Posth.
- Dipteris papilioniformis Kjellb.
- Dipteris wallichii (R. Br.) T. Moore – India , Cuba, Hispaniola
Dipteris polyphyllus, a species from New Guinea has not been fully accepted as a species.[17]
Distribution and habitat
Many species are found in Malaysia, Philippines , Samoa and New Guinea, growing beside Matonia (another fern species).[5][10] Most of the species grow on rocks, exposed places, clearings and in thickets.[18]
Fossils
The genus has been found to have been widely distributed during the Jurassic period,[2] of the Mesozoic Era when much of the genus was widely distributed around Europe. Such fossils have been found in England , Germany , France , Belgium, Austria, Switzerland , Bornholm (island), Greenland, and Poland .[10]
References
- ↑ F. O. Bower The Ferns (Filicales): Volume 2, The Eusporangiatae and Other ..., Volume 2, p. 315, at Google Books
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 R.D. Preton and H.W. Woolhouse Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 4, p. 310, at Google Books
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Peter H. Hovenkamp A Monograph of the Fern Genus Pyrrosia: Polypodiaceae, p. 102, at Google Books
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A. C. Seward Links with the Past in the Plant World, p. 93, at Google Books
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A. C. Seward Fossil Plants: A Text-Book for Students of Botany and Geology, p. 298, at Google Books
- ↑ "FOC Vol. 2-3 Page 4, 116". efloras.org. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=110503.
- ↑ Seward, A. C.; Dale, Elizabeth (1901). "On the Structure and Affinities of Dipteris, with Notes on the Geological History of the Dipteridinae". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 194 (194–206): 487–513. doi:10.1098/rstb.1901.0011.
- ↑ "Taxon: Dipteris conjugata Reinw.". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=14383.
- ↑ Annals of Natural History, Volume 2, p. 215, at Google Books
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Seward, A. C.; Dale, Elizabeth (1901). "On the Structure and Affinities of Dipteris, with Notes on the Geological History of the Dipteridinae". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 68 (442–450): 373–374. doi:10.1098/rspl.1901.0061.
- ↑ Indian Botanical Society, Memoirs, Issue 4, page 9, 1963
- ↑ D. Gledhill The Names of Plants, p. 319, at Google Books
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". 2023. https://fernphy.github.io/viewer.html.
- ↑ Hassler, Michael; Schmitt, Bernd (June 2019), "Dipteris", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8, https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/, retrieved 2019-10-04
- ↑ "Dipteris Reinw.", Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30486233-2, retrieved 2019-10-04
- ↑ "Dipteris polyphyllus". https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/5961/i-Dipteris-polyphyllus-i/Details.
- ↑ K.U. Kramer, Klaus Kubitzki, P.S. Green (Editors) Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms, p. 101, at Google Books
Other sources
- Douglas Houghton Campbell, The Evolution of the Land Plants (Embryophyta), 1940
- Anil Kumar, Botany for Degree Pteridophyta, 2006
- Sir Arthur George Tansley, The New Phytologist, 1956
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2103553 entry
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