Athyriaceae

Athyriaceae
Athyrium filix-femina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida /
Pteridopsida (disputed)
Order: Polypodiales
(unranked): Eupolypods II
Family: Athyriaceae
Alston
Genera

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Athyriaceae is a family of terrestrial ferns, with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is placed in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales[1] in the class Polypodiopsida.[2]

Genera

Athyriaceae contains the following five genera.[1]

Athyriaceae has, in the past, included Cystopteris and Gymnocarpium, now part of Cystopteridaceae. Inversely, this family has by some been subsumed in the family Woodsiaceae, but a Woodsiaceae defined in this way may be paraphyletic if it omits the Onocleaceae and Blechnaceae (as of 2006, the evidence was not clear).[2]

Phylogenic relationships

The following diagram for the eupolypods II, based on Lehtonen, 2011,[3] and Rothfels & al., 2012,[4] shows a likely phylogenic relationship between the Athyriaceae and the other families of the eupolypods II clade.

eupolypods II

Cystopteridaceae





Rhachidosoraceae




Diplaziopsidaceae




Aspleniaceae



Hemidictyaceae







Thelypteridaceae




Woodsiaceae





Onocleaceae



Blechnaceae




Athyriaceae







This phylogenic diagram shows a possible relationship between the genera of the Athyriaceae family.[5][6]

Athyriaceae




Deparia









Diplazium







Anisocampium





Cornopteris



Athyrium






References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns". Phytotaxa 19: 7–54.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Alan R. Smith, Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider & Paul G. Wolf (2006). "A classification for extant ferns". Taxon 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646.
  3. Samuli Lehtonen (2011). "Towards Resolving the Complete Fern Tree of Life". PLoS ONE 6 (10): e24851. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024851. PMC 3192703. PMID 22022365.
  4. Carl J. Rothfels, Anders Larsson, Li-Yaung Kuo, Petra Korall, Wen- Liang Chiou, Kathleen M. Pryer (2012). "Overcoming Deep Roots, Fast Rates, and Short Internodes to Resolve the Ancient Rapid Radiation of Eupolypod II Ferns". Systematic Biology 61 (1): 70.
  5. Eric Schuettpelz & Kathleen M. Pryer (2007). "Fern phylogeny inferred from 400 leptosporangiate species and three plastid genes". Taxon 56 (4): 1037–1050. doi:10.2307/25065903.
  6. Yea-Chen Liu, Wen-Liang Chiou & Masahiro Kato (2011). "Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the fern genus Anisocampium (Athyriaceae)". Taxon 60 (3): 824–830.