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Oceaniopteris
Sign in to saveOceaniopteris is a genus of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). The genus is accepted in a 2016 classification of the family Blechnaceae, but other sources sink it into a very broadly defined Blechnum, equivalent to the whole of the PPG I subfamily.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderPolypodiales
- FamilyBlechnaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Blechnaceae
- Collections
- VT
- Recorded in
- Australia, New Caledonia
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Oceaniopteris is a genus of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). The genus is accepted in a 2016 classification of the family Blechnaceae, but other sources sink it into a very broadly defined Blechnum, equivalent to the whole of the PPG I subfamily.
==Species== , using the PPG I classification system, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted the following eight species: Oceaniopteris cartilaginea (Sw.) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris ciliata (T.Moore) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris egregia (Copel.) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris francii (Rosenst.) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris gibba (Labill.) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris obtusata (Labill.) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris vittata (Brack.) Gasper & Salino Oceaniopteris whelanii (F.M.Bailey) Gasper & Salino
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oceaniopteris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.