Pteridium Gled. ex Scop.

Details

Name scientific

Pteridium Gled. ex Scop., Fl. Carniol. 169 (1760)

Preferred name

Pteridium Gled. ex Scop.

Taxonomy reference

Kramer, K.U.; Green, P.S. 1990: Pteridophytes and gymnosperms. Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 1. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Linked name

Pteridium

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Gled. ex Scop.

Original authors

Scop.

Publication place

Scopoli, J.A. 1760: Flora Carniolica. Joannis Thomae Trattner, Vienna.

Year published

1760

Publication page

169

Nomenclatural status

conserved

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pteridium Gled. ex Scop.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pteridium

Etymology

Diminutive of the Greek pteris (a fern).

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Dennstaedtiaceae

Genus

Pteridium

Subordinates

Pteridium esculentum

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Pteridium Gled. ex Scop.

Description

Sori continuous along margins of segs, protected by reflexed margin and a true indusium (sts obsolete). Sporangia with slender stalks; spores tetrahedral, smooth. Rhizome far-creeping and branching, deep seated, solenostelic, clad in hairs. Frond pinnately compound, coriac., ± hairy; veins free, simple or forked, connected by marginal nerve. Terrestrial, subcosmopolitan. The forms treated by some as one sp. with a number of vars, by others as consisting of a number of closely related spp.