Biology:Hiya (plant)

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Short description: Genus of ferns

Hiya
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Dennstaedtiaceae
Genus: Hiya
H.Shang[1]
Type species
Hiya brooksiae
(Alderw.) H.Shang

Hiya is a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Described in 2018, it resembles ferns of the genus Hypolepis but differs from it by multiple characteristics: scrambling, indeterminate and intermittent growth of fronds; stipule-like pinnules at the base of pinnae, and a rachis-costa architecture where the adaxial sulcus of the rachis is continuous with that of the costae and costules.[1][2]

The name of the genus references the name given to imperial guards from the Qing dynasty of China, hiya, due to the prickly or very rough armed stipes present in the ferns.[1]

Classification

(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:[3]

  • Hiya brooksiae (Alderw.) H.Shang (= Hypolepis brooksiae Alderw. = Hypolepis celebica C. Chr.)
  • Hiya distans (Hook.) Brownsey & Perrie (= Hypolepis distans Hook.)
  • Hiya nigrescens (Hook.) H.Shang (= Hypolepis nigrescens Hook. = Hypolepis hispanolica Maxon = Dennstaedtia rubicaulis Christ)
  • Hiya scabristipes (Brownsey) H.Shang (= Hypolepis scabristipes Brownsey)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Hiya: A new genus segregated from Hypolepis in the fern family Dennstaedtiaceae, based on phylogenetic evidence and character evolution". Mol Phylogenet Evol 127: 449–458. 2018. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.038. PMID 29723646. 
  2. "New insights into the evolution of the fern family Dennstaedtiaceae from an expanded molecular phylogeny and morphological analysis". Mol Phylogenet Evol 150: 106881. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106881. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 32512193. 
  3. Hassler, Michael (19 January 2023), "Hiya", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 14.1, https://www.worldplants.de/world-ferns/ferns-and-lycophytes-list, retrieved January 21, 2023 

Wikidata ☰ Q73222253 entry