Tectariaceae

Tectariaceae
Tectaria crenata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: monilophytes
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
(unranked): Eupolypods I
Family: Tectariaceae
Panigrahi
Genera

Tectariaceae is a family of Leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. It comprises 10 genera, of which Tectaria is by far the largest.

In 1990, Karl U. Kramer and coauthors treated Pleocnemia and 7 of the currently recognized genera as a subfamily of Dryopteridaceae.[1] Two other genera, Arthropteris and Psammiosorus, along with Oleandra, constituted Kramer's Oleandraceae. It is now known that Kramer's version of Dryopteridaceae is polyphyletic. Arthropteris and Psammiosorus form a clade that is sister to the rest of Tectariaceae and Tectariaceae is sister to a clade consisting of Oleandraceae, Davalliaceae, and Polypodiaceae.[2] In 2006, in a revision of fern classification, Tectariaceae was an accepted family.[3] In 2007, a molecular phylogenetic study of Dryopteridaceae included Pleocnemia and showed that it belongs in Dryopteridaceae.[4] Also in 2007, Dracoglossum was named as a new genus. It is probably most closely related to Hypoderris.[5]

Tectariaceae has never been the main subject of a cladistic analysis, and the relationships among its genera are poorly understood. The genus Tectaria was recently defined broadly to include Ctenitopsis, Quercifilix, Hemigramma, and some other genera that many works have recognized.[6] This article has treated Tectaria in the same broad sense.

References

  1. ↑ Karl U. Kramer (with Richard E. Holttum, Robin C. Moran, and Alan R. Smith). 1990. "Dryopteridaceae". pages ??. In: Klaus Kubitzki (general editor); Karl U. Kramer and Peter S. Green (volume editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume I. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-0-387-51794-0
  2. ↑ Eric Schuettpelz and Kathleen M. Pryer. 2007. "Fern phylogeny inferred from 400 leptosporangiate species and three plastid genes" Taxon 56(4):1037–1050. doi:10.2307/25065903 (See External links below).
  3. ↑ Alan R. Smith, Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider, and Paul G. Wolf. 2006. "A classification for extant ferns." Taxon 55(3):705-731. doi:10.2307/25065646 (See External links below).
  4. ↑ Hong-Mei Liu, Xian-Chun Zhang, Wei Wang, Yin-Long Qiu, and Zhi-Duan Chen. 2007. "Molecular Phylogeny of the Fern Family Dryopteridaceae inferred from Chloroplast rbcL and atpB genes". International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(9):1311-1323. doi:10.1086/521710
  5. ↑ Maarten J.M. Christenhusz. 2007. "Dracoglossum, a new Neotropical fern genus (Pteridophyta)". Thaiszia Journal of Botany 17:1-10. (See External links below).
  6. ↑ Alan R. Smith, Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider, and Paul G. Wolf. 2008. "Tectariaceae". pages ??. In: "Fern Classification". pages 417-467. In: Tom A. Ranker and Christopher H. Haufler (editors). Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87411-3

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