Biology:Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group

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The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the classification of pteridophytes (lycophytes and ferns) that reflects knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies. In 2016, the group published a classification for extant pteridophytes, termed "PPG I". The paper had 94 authors (26 principal and 68 additional).[1]

PPG I

A first classification, PPG I, was produced in 2016, covering only extant (living) pteridophytes. The classification was rank-based, using the ranks of class, subclass, order, suborder, family, subfamily and genus.[1]

Phylogeny

The classification was based on a consensus phylogeny, shown below to the level of order.[1]

tracheophytes
Lycopodiopsida
 

Lycopodiales

 
 
 

Isoëtales

 
 

Selaginellales

 
 
 
euphyllophytes
 
Polypodiopsida
 
Equisetidae

Equisetales

 
 
 
 
Ophioglossidae
 

Psilotales

 
 

Ophioglossales

 
 
 
 
Marattiidae

Marattiales

 
Polypodiidae
 

Osmundales

 
 
 

Hymenophyllales

 
 
 

Gleicheniales

 
 
 

Schizaeales

 
 
 

Salviniales

 
 
 

Cyatheales

 
 

Polypodiales

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

spermatophytes

 
 
 

The very large order Polypodiales was divided into two suborders, as well as families not placed in a suborder:[1]

Polypodiales
 
Saccolomatineae

Saccolomataceae

 
 

Lindsaeineae

 
 
 
 
Pteridineae

Pteridaceae

 
 
 
Dennstaedtiineae

Dennstaedtiaceae

 
eupolypods
 

Suborder Aspleniineae (eupolypods II)

 
 

Suborder Polypodiineae (eupolypods I)

 
 
 
 
 

Classification to subfamily level

To the level of subfamily, the PPG I classification is as follows.[1]

  • Order Lycopodiales DC. ex Bercht. & J.Presl (1 family, 16 genera)
  • Order Isoëtales Prantl (1 family, 1 genus)
  • Family Isoëtaceae Dumort. (1 genus)
  • Class Polypodiopsida Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. (11 orders, 48 families, 319 genera)
  • Subclass Equisetidae Warm. (1 order, 1 family, 1 genus)
  • Order Equisetales DC. ex Bercht. & J.Presl (1 family, 1 genus)
  • Subclass Marattiidae Klinge (1 order, 1 family, 6 genera)
  • Subclass Polypodiidae Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. (7 orders, 44 families, 300 genera)
  • Order Cyatheales A.B.Frank (8 families, 13 genera)
  • Suborder Lindsaeineae Lehtonen & Tuomist (3 families, 9 genera)
  • Suborder Pteridineae J.Prado & Schuettp (1 family, 53 genera)
  • Suborder Aspleniineae H.Schneid. & C.J.Rothf (11 families, 72 genera)

Number of genera

The number of genera used in PPG I has proved controversial. PPG I uses 18 lycophyte and 319 fern genera.[1] The earlier system put forward by Smith et al. (2006) had suggested a range of 274 to 312 genera for ferns alone.[2] By contrast, the system of Christenhusz and Chase (2014) used 5 lycophyte and about 212 fern genera.[3] The number of fern genera was further reduced to 207 in a subsequent publication.[4]

The number of genera used in each of these two approaches has been defended by their proponents. Defending PPG I, Schuettpelz et al. (2018) argue that the larger number of genera is a result of "the gradual accumulation of new collections and new data" and hence "a greater appreciation of fern diversity and [..] an improved ability to distinguish taxa". They also argue that the number of species per genus in the PPG I system is already higher than in other groups of organisms (about 33 species per genus for ferns as opposed to about 22 species per genus for angiosperms) and that reducing the number of genera as Christenhusz and Chase propose yields the excessive number of about 50 species per genus for ferns.[5] In response, Christenhusz and Chase (2018) argue that the excessive splitting of genera destabilises the usage of names and will lead to greater instability in future, and that the highly split genera have few if any characters that can be used to recognize them, making identification difficult, even to generic level. They further argue that comparing numbers of species per genus in different groups is "fundamentally meaningless".[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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 
  2. ↑ Smith, Alan R.; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Korall, Petra; Schneider, Harald; Wolf, Paul G. (2006), "A Classification for Extant Ferns", Taxon 55 (3): 705–731, doi:10.2307/25065646 
  3. ↑ Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Chase, Mark W. (2014), "Trends and concepts in fern classification", Annals of Botany 113 (4): 571–594, doi:10.1093/aob/mct299, PMID 24532607 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Chase, Mark W. (2018), "PPG recognises too many fern genera", Taxon 67 (3): 481–487, doi:10.12705/673.2 
  5. ↑ Schuettpelz, Eric; Rouhan, Germinal; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Rothfels, Carl J.; Prado, Jefferson; Sundue, Michael A.; Windham, Michael D.; Moran, Robbin C. et al. (2018), "Are there too many fern genera?", Taxon 67 (3): 473–480, doi:10.12705/673.1 



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