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Acystopteris

Acystopteris is a genus of ferns in the family Cystopteridaceae.

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Acystopteris
Acystopteris tenuisecta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Cystopteridaceae
Genus: Acystopteris
Nakai (1933)
Type species
Acystopteris japonica
(Luerssen) Nakai
Synonyms
  • Cystopteris (Acystopteris) (Nakai 1933) Blasdell 1963

Acystopteris is a genus of ferns in the family Cystopteridaceae.1

Phylogeny

This genus includes the following species:2

Phylogeny from Fern Tree of Life34
Acystopteris

A. japonica (Luerssen) Nakai 1933

A. taiwaniana (Tagawa) Á.Löve & D.Löve 1977

A. tenuisecta (Blume) Tagawa 1938

References

References

  1. Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.
  2. Acystopteris Nakai Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 29 Feb 2012
  3. Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.
  4. "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.7.0 (GenBank release 261). 2024. Retrieved 1 May 2025.