Pentarhizidium orientale

Pentarhizidium orientale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pteridophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida (disputed)
Order:	Polypodiales
(unranked):	Eupolypods II
Family:	Onocleaceae
Genus:	Pentarhizidium
Species:	P. orientale
Binomial name
Pentarhizidium orientale (Hook.) Hayata
Synonyms
Matteuccia orientalis (Hook.) Trevis. Onoclea orientalis (Hook.) Hook. Pentarhizidium orientale (Hook.) Hayata Pteretis orientalis Ching Struthiopteris orientalis Hook.

Pentarhizidium orientalis, the Oriental ostrich fern, is a fern native to China, Japan, and the Himalayas. It grows to about 0.6 m (2 ft) in height by 0.6 m (2 ft) wide. It was formerly included in the genus Matteuccia, but phylogenetic studies mandated that it and Pentarhizidium intermedium be moved to a new genus.

References

External links

• Media related to Pentarhizidium orientale at Wikimedia Commons
• The Plant List entry
• Plants for a Future entry
• USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry
• Efloras entry
• Robert M. Lloyd, Facultative Apomixis and Polyploidy in Matteuccia orientalis, American Fern Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr.–Jun. 1973), pp. 43–48. Published by the American Fern Society.