| Hemidictyum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
| Family: | Hemidictyaceae Christenh. & H.Schneid. |
| Genus: | Hemidictyum C.Presl [1] |
| Species: | H. marginatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemidictyum marginatum | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Hemidictyum is a genus of ferns with a single species, Hemidictyum marginatum, commonly known as the marginated half net fern. [3] In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Hemidictyaceae. [4] Alternatively, the family, along with Aspleniaceae sensu stricto , may be placed in a much more broadly defined family Aspleniaceae as the subfamily Asplenioideae. [5]
The name Hemidictyum was derived from the terms hemi (half) and diktyon (net), from the veins being netted only half-way across the pinnules. [6]
Hemidictyaceae is considered to be a sister family to Aspleniaceae s.l., believed to have diverged during the Cretaceous period. [7] [8] The following cladogram for the suborder Aspleniineae (as eupolypods II), based on Lehtonen (2011), [9] and Rothfels & al. (2012), [10] shows a likely phylogenetic relationship between the Hemidictyaceae and the other families of the clade.
There is currently only one accepted Hemidictyum species, Hemidictyum marginatum. [1]
Hemidictyum is a native neotropical fern, found in Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. [3] [11]