Cheiropleuria

Cheiropleuria
Cheiropleuria integrifolia in Okinawa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Gleicheniales
Family:	Dipteridaceae
Genus:	Cheiropleuria C.Presl [1]
Type species
Cheiropleuria bicuspis (Blume) Presl
Species
C. bicuspis(Blume) Presl C. integrifolia(Eaton exHooker) Kato et al. C. parvaKato et al.

Cheiropleuria is a genus of ferns in the family Dipteridaceae. Species are found in both temperate and tropical eastern Asia. ^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy

Cheiropleuria was first described by Carl Borivoj Presl in 1851. ^[1] The type species Cheiropleuria bicuspis was first described as Polypodium bicuspe by Blume in 1828. ^[3]

Species

As of November 2019 ^[update] , Plants of the World Online and the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species: ^{[1] [2]}

• Cheiropleuria bicuspis (Blume) C.Presl – widely distributed in temperate and tropical eastern Asia
• Cheiropleuria integrifolia (D.C.Eaton ex Hook.) M.Kato, Y.Yatabe, Sahashi & N.Murak. – southern Japan, China (Guangdong, Guangxi), Taiwan
• Cheiropleuria parva M.Kato, Y.Yatabe, Sahashi & N.Murak. – Borneo

Phylogeny of Cheiropleuria: ^{[4] [5]}

Cheiropleuria	C. bicuspis C. integrifolia C. parva

References

1. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (August 2019), "Cheiropleuria", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, Version 8.10, archived from the original on 2017-09-02, retrieved 2019-11-16
2. "Cheiropleuria C.Presl", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-11-16
3. "Polypodium bicuspe Blume", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-11-16^{[ dead link ]}
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 v1.7.0 (GenBank release 261). 2024. Retrieved 1 May 2025.