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Gymnogrammitis

Gymnogrammitis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Drynarioideae of the family Polypodiaceae according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), with a single species Gymnogrammitis dareiformis.

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Gymnogrammitis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Polypodiineae
Family: Polypodiaceae
Subfamily: Drynarioideae
Genus: Gymnogrammitis
Griff.2
Species:
G. dareiformis
Binomial name
Gymnogrammitis dareiformis
(Hook.) Ching ex Tardieu & C.Chr.1
Synonyms1
  • Acrophorus hookeri Bedd.
  • Acrophorus multidentatus Bedd.
  • Araiostegia dareiformis (Hook.) Copel.
  • Davallia dareiformis (Hook.) Levinge ex C.B.Clarke
  • Leucostegia dareiformis (Hook.) Bedd.
  • Polypodium dareiformioides Ching
  • Polypodium dareiformis Hook.
  • Selliguea dareiformis (Hook.) X.C.Zhang & L.J.He

Gymnogrammitis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Drynarioideae of the family Polypodiaceae according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I),2 with a single species Gymnogrammitis dareiformis.12

Taxonomy

The genus Gymnogrammitis was first erected by William Griffith in 1849. The only accepted species is Gymnogrammitis dareiformis, transferred from Polypodium dareiforme.12 In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the genus is placed in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Drynarioideae.2 Other sources place Gymnogrammitis dareiformis in a more broadly circumscribed genus Selliguea as Selliguea dareiformis.3

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References

  1. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020), "Gymnogrammitis", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, Version 8.20, archived from the original on 2017-09-02, retrieved 2020-02-07
  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, S2CID 39980610
  3. "Gymnogrammitis dareiformis (Hook.) Ching ex Tardieu & C.Chr.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-02-07