Botrychiaceae
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 Botrychium lunaria
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Botrychiaceae (moonwort family) is a segregate family of ferns. The family includes only the genus Botrychium, which in some treatments is broken into several more narrowly defined genera, Botrychium s.s., Botrypus, Japanobotrychium, and Sceptridium. Most recent fern classifications have taken a broad circumscription of Botrychium and include the genus in family Ophioglossaceae.
The family is not recognized in the classification of Smith et al.,[1] who instead subsume the Botrychiaceae into the Ophioglossaceae.
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, Alan R.; Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider, & Paul G. Wolf (2006). "A classification for extant ferns" (PDF). Taxon 55 (3): 705–731.
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