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Taenitis

Taenitis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. Species are native to south-east tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

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Taenitis
Illustration of Taenitis pinnata (as Hemionitis elongata Brack., non Hemionitis elongata Cav.)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Pteridoideae
Genus: Taenitis
Willd. ex Schkuhr1
Type species
Taenitis pteroides
(Willdenow) Schkuhr
Species

See text.

Synonyms2
  • Holttumia Copel.
  • Holttumiella Copel.
  • Platytaenia Kuhn
  • Schizolepton Fée

Taenitis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae.3 Species are native to south-east tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific.1

Species

As of December 2019, Plants of the World Online and the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species:12

Phylogeny of Taenitis45

T. cordata (Gaudich.) Holttum

T. pinnata (J.Sm.) Holttum

T. diversifolia Holttum

T. hookeri (C.Chr.) Holttum

T. dimorpha Holttum

T. blechnoides (Willd.) Sw.

T. interrupta Hook. & Grev.

Other species:

  • T. brooksii Copel.
  • T. flabellivenia (Baker) Holttum
  • T. hosei (Baker) Holttum
  • T. intermedia M.Kato
  • T. marginata Holttum
  • T. mediosora M.Kato
  • T. obtusa Hook.
  • T. requiniana (Gaudich.) Copel.
  • T. trilobata Holttum
  • T. vittarioides Holttum
References

References

  1. "Taenitis Willd. ex Schkuhr", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-12-29
  2. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Taenitis", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, retrieved 2019-12-29
  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
  4. 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.
  5. "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.4.0 [GenBank release 253]. 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.