Hypodematiaceae

Hypodematiaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida (disputed)
Order: Polypodiales
(unranked): Eupolypods I
Family: Hypodematiaceae
Ching
Genera

Hypodematiaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales. It consists of two, or possibly three, small genera. Hypodematium and Leucostegia are always included, and Didymochlaena might best be placed in this family as well.

Hypodematiaceae was erected by Ren-Chang Ching in 1975,[1][2] but was not subsequently accepted by many authors. It was not accepted in a classification of ferns that was published in 2006.[3] In that paper, the genera Hypodematium, Leucostegia, and Didymochlaena were provisionally assigned to Dryopteridaceae, with the authors expressing some doubt about whether they really belonged there. In two molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2007, the clade that is tentatively called eupolypods I was resolved as a tritomy consisting of Didymochlaena, Hypodematiaceae sensu stricto, and the rest of eupolypods I.[4][5]

References

  1. Ren-Chang Ching. 1975. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 13(1):96.
  2. James L. Reveal. 2008 onward. "A Checklist of Family and Suprafamilial Names for Extant Vascular Plants." At: Home page of James L. Reveal and C. Rose Broome. (see External links below).
  3. Alan R. Smith, Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider, and Paul G. Wolf. 2006. "A classification for extant ferns". Taxon 55(3):705–731 doi:10.2307/25065646 (See External links below)
  4. Eric Schuettpelz and Kathleen M. Pryer. 2007. "Fern phylogeny inferred from 400 leptosporangiate species and 3 plastid genes". Taxon 56(4):1037-1050.
  5. Hong-Mei Liu, Xian-Chun Zhang, Wei Wang, Yin-Long Qiu, and Zhi-Duan Chen. 2007. "Molecular Phylogeny of the Fern Family Dryopteridaceae inferred from Chloroplast rbcL and atpB Genes". International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(9):1311-1323. doi:10.1086/521710

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