Gleichenella Ching (1940: 276)

Lima, Lucas Vieira & Salino, Alexandre, 2018, The fern family Gleicheniaceae (Polypodiopsida) in Brazil, Phytotaxa 358 (3), pp. 199-234 : 209

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.358.3.1

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scientific name

Gleichenella Ching (1940: 276)
status

 

2. Gleichenella Ching (1940: 276) View in CoL .

Gleichenia Sm. Sect. View in CoL Acropterygium Diels (1900: 353) .

Dicranopteris Bernh. Sect. View in CoL Acropterygium (Diels) Underwood (1907: 251) .

Dicranopteris Bernh. Subg. View in CoL Acropterygium (Diels) Holttum (1957: 261) .

Type:— Gleichenella pectinata (Willd.) Ching. (= Mertensia pectinata Wild. )

Plants terrestrial. Rhizomes long-creeping, branched, solenostelic, with brown multicellular hairs, pubescent. Fronds erect or scrambling, pseudodichotomically branched, with anisotomic branches, abaxial surface with reddish branched, usually stellate hairs, secondary veins without glandular hairs, adaxial surface glabrous, ultimate segments linear. Buds covered with hairs, with pseudostipule, accessory branches absent. Veins 2–3(–4)-forked. Sori round, about (6–)8–15(–25) sporangia per sori, without paraphyses. Spores ellipsoid, monolete, rugose surface; x= 43.

A monotypic genus with neotropical distribution.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Gleicheniales

Family

Gleicheniaceae

Loc

Gleichenella Ching (1940: 276)

Lima, Lucas Vieira & Salino, Alexandre 2018
2018
Loc

Dicranopteris

Holttum, R. E. 1957: )
1957
Loc

Dicranopteris

Underwood, L. M. 1907: )
1907
Loc

Gleichenia

Diels, F. L. E. 1900: )
1900
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