Biology:Gymnosphaera

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Gymnosphaera
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Cyatheales
Family: Cyatheaceae
Genus: Gymnosphaera
Blume
Type species
Gymnosphaera glabra
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Alsophila section Gymnosphaera (Blume) Moore
  • Alsophila subgen. Gymnosphaera (Blume) Q.Xia
  • Cyathea subgen. Gymnosphaera (Blume) Tindale
  • Cyathea sect. Gymnosphaera (Blume) Holttum

Gymnosphaera is a genus of tree ferns in family Cyatheaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was originally described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1828.[1] It was frequently treated by later authors as a synonym of Cyathea or Alsophila.

In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Gymnosphaera was left as a synonym of Alsophila, as evidence to support its reliable separation was lacking.[2] More recently, Shi-Yong Dong and collaborators proposed the revival and recircumscription of the genus based on additional phylogenetic evidence,[3] an act subsequently accepted by other tree fern workers.[4]

Phylogeny

(As of January 2023), the following species are accepted in the genus as currently circumscribed by the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World:[5]

Phylogeny of Gymnosphaera[6][7]

Gymnosphaera

G. capensis (L.fil.) S.Y.Dong

G. schliebenii (Reimers) S.Y.Dong

Alsophila boiviniiformis (Rakotondr. & Janssen) Christenhusz

G. impolita (Rakotondr. & Janssen) S.Y.Dong

G. andohahelensis (Tardieu) Tardieu

G. poolii (C.Chr.) S.Y.Dong

G. rouhaniana (Rakotondr. & Janssen) S.Y.Dong

G. salvinii (Hook.) S.Y.Dong

G. hornei (Baker) Copel.

Alsophila klossii (Ridl.) Tryon

G. acrostichoides (Alderw.) S.Y.Dong

G. schlechteri (Brause) Copel.

G. olivacea (Brause) S.Y.Dong

G. phlebodes (Lehnert & Coritico) S.Y.Dong

G. baileyana (Domin) S.Y.Dong

G. rebeccae (F.Muell.) S.Y.Dong

G. annae (Alderw.) S.Y.Dong

G. dimorpha (Christ) S.Y.Dong

G. biformis (Rosenst.) Copel.

G. scandens (Brause) S.Y.Dong

G. ramispina (Hook.) Copel.

G. ogurae (Hayata) Tagawa

G. subdubia (Alderw.) S.Y.Dong

G. khasyana (T.Moore ex Kuhn) Ching

G. lurida (Blume) S.Y.Dong

G. denticulata (Baker) Copel.

G. bachmaensis S.Y.Dong

G. podophylla (Hook.) Copel.

G. salletii (Tardieu & C.Chr. ex C.Chr. & Tardieu) S.Y.Dong

G. austroyunnanensis (S.G.Lu) S.G.Lu & Chun X.Li

G. saxicola S.Y.Dong & Z.Y.Zuo

G. gigantea (Wall. ex Hook.) J.Sm.

G. metteniana (Hance) Tagawa

G. andersonii (Scott ex Beddome) Ching & Wu

G. glabra Blume

Other species include:

  • Gymnosphaera alticola Tardieu
  • Gymnosphaera atropurpurea (Copel.) Copel.
  • Gymnosphaera boivinii (Mett. ex Ettingsh.) Tardieu
  • Gymnosphaera bonii (Christ) S.Y.Dong
  • Gymnosphaera commutata (Mett.) S.Y.Dong
  • Gymnosphaera henryi (Baker) S.R.Ghosh
  • Gymnosphaera mildbraedii (Brause) S.Y.Dong
  • Gymnosphaera nicklesii Tardieu & F.Ballard ex Tardieu
  • Gymnosphaera ramispinoides (M.Kato) S.Y.Dong
  • Gymnosphaera rubella (Holttum) S.Y.Dong


References

  1. Blume, Carl Ludwig (1828). Enumeratio plantarum Javae. 2. p. 242. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31163075. 
  2. 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 
  3. Dong, Shi-Yong; Zuo, Zheng-Yu (2018). "On the Recognition of Gymnosphaera As a Distinct Genus in Cyatheaceae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 103 (1): 1–23. doi:10.3417/2017049. 
  4. Loiseau, Oriane; Weigand, Anna; Noben, Sarah; Rolland, Jonathan; Silvestro, Daniele; Kessler, Michael; Lehnert, Marcus; Salamin, Nicolas (2020). "Slowly but surely: gradual diversification and phenotypic evolution in the hyper-diverse tree fern family Cyatheaceae". Annals of Botany 125 (1): 93–103. doi:10.1093/aob/mcz145. PMID 31562744. 
  5. Hassler, Michael (19 January 2023), "Gymnosphaera", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 14.1, https://www.worldplants.de/world-ferns/ferns-and-lycophytes-list, retrieved January 21, 2023 
  6. 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. 
  7. "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". 2023. https://fernphy.github.io/viewer.html. 

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