Cyatheales

Dicksonia antarctica

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pteridophyta
Classis: Polypodiopsida
Ordo: Cyatheales
Familiae: Cibotiaceae – Culcitaceae – Cyatheaceae – Dicksoniaceae – Loxsomataceae – Metaxyaceae – Plagiogyriaceae – Thyrsopteridaceae

Name

Cyatheales A.B.Frank in Leunis, Syn. Pflanzenkd. ed. 2, 3: 1452, 1456 (1877).

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Dicksoniales Pic.Serm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 74: 175. 1993.
  • Hymenophyllopsidales Reveal, Phytologia 74: 175. 1993.
  • Loxsomatales Reveal, Phytologia 74: 175. 1993.
  • Metaxyales Doweld, Prosyllabus Tracheoph. xii. 2001.
  • Plagiogyriales Reveal, Phytologia 74: 176. 1993.

References

Additional references

• Christenhusz, M.J.M. & Chase, M.W. 2014. Trends and concepts in fern classification. Annals of Botany 113(4): 571–594. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct299 PDF Reference page. 
• Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG I) 2016. A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54(6): 563–603. DOI: 10.1111/jse.12229 Reference page. 
• Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. 2006. A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 705–731. DOI: 10.2307/25065646 JSTOR ResearchGate PDF. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Tree ferns

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