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Struthiopteris
Sign in to saveStruthiopteris is a genus of ferns belonging to the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae.
Species
cinnamon fern
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderPolypodiales
- FamilyBlechnaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Blechnaceae
- Collections
- GH, NCU, WTU, ANSP, NY, BRIT
- Recorded in
- Panama, Colombia, Japan, Portugal, United States, Germany, Denmark, Italy
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Encyclopedic overview
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Struthiopteris is a genus of ferns belonging to the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae.
==Species== In the circumscription used in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the genus contains five species. The Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World places three of these species in the genus Spicantopsis. Struthiopteris amabilis (Makino) Ching (syn. Blechnum amabile Makino) = Spicantopsis amabilis (Makino) Nakai Struthiopteris castanea (Makino & Nemoto) Nakai (syns Lomaria castanea Makino, Blechnum castaneum Makino & Nemoto) Struthiopteris fallax (Lange) S.Molino, Gabriel y Galán & Wasowicz Struthiopteris hancockii (Hance) Tagawa (syn. Blechnum hancockii Hance) = Spicantopsis hancockii (Hance) Masam. Struthiopteris niponica (Kunze) Nakai (syns Lomaria niponica Kunze, Blechnum niponicum Makino) = Spicantopsis niponica (Kunze) Nakai Struthiopteris spicant (L.) F.W.Weiss (syns Osmunda spicant L., Blechnum spicant (L.) Sm.)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Struthiopteris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.