Gleicheniales

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Gleicheniales
Temporal range: Permian–Recent
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Dipteris conjugata of the Dipteridaceae
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Subclass: Polypodiidae
Order: Gleicheniales
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Families

Dipteridaceae
Gleicheniaceae
Matoniaceae

Synonyms

Gleicheniatae
Gleicheniopsida
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Gleicheniales is an order of ferns in the subclass Polypodiidae (the leptosporangiate ferns). The Gleicheniales have records potentially as early as the Carboniferous, but the oldest unambiguous records date to the Permian.

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Description

These ferns are characterized by root steles having 3–5 protoxylem poles and antheridia with 6–12 narrow, twisted or curved cells in their walls. [1] Otherwise, their habitus is highly diverse, including plants with the typical fern fronds, others whose leaves resemble those of palm trees, and yet others again which have undivided leaves. They are tropical ferns, most diverse in Asia and the Pacific region.

Classification

In the molecular phylogenetic classification of Smith et al. in 2006, the Gleicheniales were placed in class Polypodiopsida (the leptosporangiate ferns). Three families, Dipteridaceae, Gleicheniaceae, and Matoniaceae were recognized. [1] The linear sequence of Christenhusz et al. (2011), intended for compatibility with the classification of Chase and Reveal (2009) [2] which placed all land plants in Equisetopsida, [3] reclassified Smith's Polypodiopsida as subclass Polypodiidae and placed the Gleicheniales there. The circumscription of the order and its families was not changed, [2] and that circumscription and placement in Polypodiidae has subsequently been followed in the classifications of Christenhusz and Chase (2014) [4] and PPG I (2016). [5]

The form taxon Microphyllopteris is used for some Mesozoic Gleicheniales that cannot be reliably assigned to the present-day orders. The Triassic Antarctipteris and Gleichenipteris are sometimes ascribed to the Gleicheniaceae, but are probably better considered Gleicheniales incertae sedis . [1] The oldest possible members of the family are members of the genus Oligocarpia (reproductive organs) from the Carboniferous. However, these have alternatively been considered members of Sermayaceae. The oldest unambiguous records, belonging to the family Gleicheniaceae, are known from the Wuda Tuff flora of China, dating to the Asselian, approximately 298.34 million years ago. [6]

In historical treatments, the order has sometimes been treated as a subclass Gleicheniatae of the Pteridopsida, with the taxa treated as families here upranked to orders, so that a distinct subclass can be established for the leptosporangiate ferns. In other treatments, they were expanded to include the filmy ferns (order Hymenophyllales), as well as the similar-looking genus Hymenophyllopsis (as order Hymenophyllopsidales). The resultant group was treated as class Gleichenopsida alongside the Pteridopsida, which would then be limited to the leptosporangiate ferns. However, this class is not monophyletic but rather a basal grade, retaining ancient traits among the living ferns. [1] Irrespective of their modern taxonomic treatment, the Gleicheniales were formerly included in the order Polypodiales. But the ferns in the loose sense are much too diverse a group to be shoehorned into one taxon at such a low rank. [1]

The following diagram shows the phylogeny of Gleicheniales. [7] [8]

Gleicheniales

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Smith, Alan R.; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Korall, Petra; Schneider, Harald; Wolf, Paul G. (August 2006). "A classification for extant ferns" (PDF). Taxon. 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646. JSTOR   25065646. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-09. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  2. 1 2 Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (18 February 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.
  3. Chase, Mark W.; Reveal, James L. (October 2009). "A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 122–127. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01002.x .
  4. Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Chase, Mark W. (13 February 2014). "Trends and concepts in fern classification". Annals of Botany. 113 (4): 571–594. doi:10.1093/aob/mct299. PMC   3936591 . PMID   24532607.
  5. The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (November 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.
  6. He, Xuezhi; Zhou, Weiming; Li, Dandan; Wang, Shijun; Hilton, Jason; Wang, Jun (November 2021). "A 298-million-year-old gleicheniaceous fern from China". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 294: 104355. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104355. S2CID   229436258.
  7. Samuli Lehtonen (2011). "Towards Resolving the Complete Fern Tree of Life" (PDF). PLOS ONE. 6 (10): e24851. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024851 . PMC   3192703 . PMID   22022365. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  8. Choo, Thereis Y. S.; Escapa, Ignacio H. (2018). "Assessing the evolutionary history of the fern family Dipteridaceae (Gleicheniales) by incorporating both extant and extinct members in a combined phylogenetic study". American Journal of Botany. 105 (8): 1–14. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1121 . hdl: 11336/98938 . PMID   30091784.

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