Oeosporangium

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Oeosporangium
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Oeosporangium guanchicum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Cheilanthoideae
Genus: Oeosporangium
Vis. [1]
Species

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Oeosporangium is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the family Pteridaceae. [2] The genus has not always been recognized. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) it was included in Allosorus [2] (a genus since subsumed into Aleuritopteris ). It was accepted by the Checklist of the Ferns and Lycophytes of the Worldas of January 2020. [1] As circumscribed there, the genus is native to the Old World. [1]

Species

As of January 2020, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Oeosporangium", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, retrieved 2020-01-01
  2. 1 2 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