Struthiopteris

Struthiopteris
Struthiopteris spicant
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Blechnaceae
Subfamily: Blechnoideae
Genus: Struthiopteris
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Species

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Struthiopteris is a genus of ferns belonging to the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae.

Species

In the circumscription used in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the genus contains five species. The Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World places three of these species in the genus Spicantopsis.

References

  1. 1 2 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, S2CID 39980610
  2. ↑ Gasper, André Luís De; Dittrich, Vinícius Antonio De Oliveira; Smith, Alan Reid & Salino, Alexandre (2016-09-21), "A classification for Blechnaceae (Polypodiales: Polypodiopsida): New genera, resurrected names, and combinations", Phytotaxa, 275 (3): 191–227, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.275.3.1, ISSN 1179-3163, retrieved 2019-08-11
  3. ↑ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Spicantopsis", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, retrieved 2019-12-23