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Hemidictyum
Sign in to savethumb | right | Hemidictyum marginatum plant Hemidictyum is a genus of ferns with a single species, Hemidictyum marginatum, commonly known as the marginated half net fern. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Hemidictyaceae. Alternatively, the family, along with Aspleniaceae sensu stricto, may be placed in a much more broadly defined family Aspleniaceae as the subfamily Asplenioideae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderPolypodiales
- FamilyHemidictyaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Hemidictyaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, MICH, JBRJ, UFMG, GMUF, MIN
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Costa Rica, Brasil, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Trinidad And Tobago, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Diplaziopsidaceae
- Image
- Hemidictyum marginatum inat.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Hemidictyum
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Phylogenetic relationships
- Species
- Distribution
- References
thumb | right | Hemidictyum marginatum plant Hemidictyum is a genus of ferns with a single species, Hemidictyum marginatum, commonly known as the marginated half net fern. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Hemidictyaceae. Alternatively, the family, along with Aspleniaceae sensu stricto, may be placed in a much more broadly defined family Aspleniaceae as the subfamily Asplenioideae.
==Taxonomy== The name Hemidictyum was derived from the terms hemi (half) and diktyon (net), from the veins being netted only half-way across the pinnules.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hemidictyum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.