Biology:Rheopteris

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Short description: Genus of ferns

Rheopteris
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Vittarioideae
Genus: Rheopteris
Alston[1]
Type species
Rheopteris cheesmaniae
Alston
Species

Rheopteris is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Vittarioideae of the family Pteridaceae with a single species, Rheopteris cheesmaniae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1][2] Other sources sink the genus into Monogramma,[3] a genus not recognized in PPG I.[1] The species is native to New Guinea.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hassler, Michael; Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Rheopteris", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/, retrieved 2019-12-30 
  3. "Monogramma Comm. ex Schkuhr", Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17149800-1, retrieved 2019-12-30 

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