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Lophosoria
Sign in to saveLophosoria is a genus of tree ferns within the family Dicksoniaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderCyatheales
- FamilyDicksoniaceae
Native toArgentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 68
- With media
- 50
- Family
- Dicksoniaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, US, MO, BRIT, VT, CM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dicksoniaceae
- Image
- Lophosoria quadripinnata-pinna.JPG
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- Lophosoria
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lophosoria is a genus of tree ferns within the family Dicksoniaceae.
Although it is confined to tropical America in modern times, there is fossil evidence that it was once spread throughout Gondwana with the exception of New Zealand.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lophosoria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.