Woodsia | |
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Woodsia alpina[3] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Polypodiales |
Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
Family: | Woodsiaceae Herter[1] |
Genus: | Woodsia R.Br.[1][2] |
Woodsia is a genus of ferns in the family Woodsiaceae. Species of Woodsia are commonly known as cliff ferns.[4]: 224 In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae.[1] In 2020, Physematium was split off from Woodsia on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence.[5] As of June 2023[update], Plants of the World Online continued to treat Physematium as a synonym of Woodsia.[6]
Species
[edit]There are about 25–30 species of the genus Woodsia. As of June 2023[update], World Ferns hosted at World Plants accepted the following species:[7]
- Woodsia alpina (Bolton) Gray – alpine woodsia
- Woodsia andersonii (Bedd.) Christ
- Woodsia asiatica Kiselev & Shmakov
- Woodsia calcarea (Fomin) Shmakov
- Woodsia cinnamomea Christ
- Woodsia cycloloba Hand.-Mazz.
- Woodsia glabella R.Br. – smooth cliff fern
- Woodsia gorovoii Krestsch. & Shmakov
- Woodsia guizhouensis P.S.Wang, Q.Luo & Li Bing Zhang
- Woodsia hancockii Baker
- Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R.Br. – oblong woodsia, rusty cliff fern
- Woodsia kungiana Li Bing Zhang, N.T.Lu & X.F.Gao
- Woodsia lanosa Hook.
- Woodsia macrochlaena Mett. ex Kuhn
- Woodsia macrospora C.Chr. & Maxon
- Woodsia nikkoensis H.Ogura & Nakaike
- Woodsia oblonga Ching & S.H.Wu
- Woodsia okamotoi Tagawa
- Woodsia pilosa Ching
- Woodsia polystichoides D.C.Eaton
- Woodsia pseudopolystichoides (Fomin) Kiselev & Shmakov
- Woodsia pulchella Bertol.
- Woodsia rosthorniana Diels
- Woodsia shensiensis Ching
- Woodsia sinica Ching
- Woodsia subcordata Turcz.
- Woodsia taigischensis (Stepanov) Kuznetsov
- Woodsia taishanensis F.Z.Li & C.K.Ni
Some hybrids are also known:[7]
- Woodsia × gracilis (G.Lawson) Butters = W. alpina × W. ilvensis
- Woodsia × tryonis B.Boivin = W. ilvensis × W. glabella
When the genus Physematium is accepted, × Woodsimatium abbeae is a hybrid between Woodsia ilvensis and Physematium scopulinum.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "Woodsia R.Br". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ^ Broughton Cobb; Elizabeth Farnsworth; Cheryl Lowe (2005). A Field Guide to Ferns and their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series (2nd ed.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0618394060.
- ^ Lu, N.T.; Zhou, X.-M.; Zhang, L.; Knapp, R.; Li, C.-X.; Fan, X.-P.; Zhou, L.; Wei, H.-J.; Lu, J.-M., Xu, B.; Peng, Y.-L.; Gao, X.-F. & Zhang, L.-B. (2020), "A global plastid phylogeny of the cliff fern family Woodsiaceae and a two-genus classification of Woodsiaceae with the description of ×Woodsimatium nothogen. nov.", Taxon, 68 (6): 1149–1172, doi:10.1002/tax.12180, S2CID 213706008
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Physematium Kaulf.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2023-06-13
- ^ a b Hassler, Michael. "Woodsia". World Ferns. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ^ Hassler, Michael. "× Woodsimatium". World Ferns. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
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