Leucostegia

Leucostegia
Leucostegia pallida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Polypodiineae
Family:	Hypodematiaceae
Genus:	Leucostegia C.Presl
Type species
Leucostegia immersa C.Presl
Species
L. amplissima L. immersa L. pallida

Leucostegia is a genus of ferns in the family Hypodematiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). ^[1]

Species

As of November 2025 ^[update] , the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the three species below. ^[2]

• Leucostegia amplissia (Christ) C.W.Chen
• Leucostegia immersa C.Presl
• Leucostegia pallida (Mett.) Copel.

Phylogeny

Phylogeny from Fern Tree of Life [3] [4]
Leucostegia L. pallida(Mettenius ex Kuhn) Copeland L. amplissima(Christ) Chen L. immersaPresl

References

1. 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
2. Hassler, Michael. "Hypodematium". World Ferns. Retrieved 2025-11-01.
3. 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.
4. "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.7.0 (GenBank release 261). 2024. Retrieved 1 May 2025.