Biology:Loxsomopsis

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Short description: Genus of ferns

Loxsomopsis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Cyatheales
Family: Loxsomataceae
Genus: Loxsomopsis
Christ[1]
Species:
L. pearcei
Binomial name
Loxsomopsis pearcei
(Baker) Maxon[1]
Synonyms[1]

(Species)

  • Loxsomopsis lehmannii Dennstaedtia pearcei
  • (Baker) C.Chr. Baker
  • Hieron. Loxsomopsis notabilis
  • Loxsomopsis costaricensis Sloss.
  • Dicksonia pearcei Christ

Loxsomopsis is a genus of ferns with a single described species, Loxsomopsis pearcei, found in eastern Central and South America, from Costa Rica to Ecuador.[1][2] In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the genus is placed in the family Loxsomataceae.[3] Other sources place it in an expanded family Cyatheaceae.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hassler, Michael; Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Loxsomopsis", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, Version 8.11, https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Loxsomopsis Christ", Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30005013-2, retrieved 2019-11-16 
  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 

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