Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Details

Name scientific

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn., Schul-Bot. 109 (1831)

Preferred name

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Taxonomy reference

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.

Linked name

Pteridaceae

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

E.D.M.Kirchn.

Authors

E.D.M.Kirchn.

Publication place

Kirchner, E.D.M. 1831: Schul-Botanik, oder, Kurze Naturgeschichte der Pflanzen überhaupt. Berlin.

Year published

1831

Publication page

109

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Type taxon

Pteris L.

Taxonomic rank

family

Canonical form

Pteridaceae

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Pteridaceae

Subordinates

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Adiantaceae

Description

Sori superficial, marginal to submarginal, sts confluent; protected by margin of lamina, rarely unprotected, exindusiate. Sporangia mostly large, shortly stalked, without paraphyses; pedicels slender. Annulus with stomium. Spores tetrahedral, ± globose, smooth to spinulose. Rhizome solenostelic, creeping or short and oblique forming a small stock. Paleae us. present, and often hairs. Stipes not jointed to rhizome. Fronds pinnatifid to pinnately compound. About 12 genera of mostly terrestrial ferns.

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

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Description

Sori mainly fused to coenosori, protected by lamina margin, with or without a true indusium. Sporangia long-stalked, spores tetrahedral or bilateral, without perispore, about oblong, smooth to tuberculate; annulus us. narrow. Rhizome creeping and solenostelic, or forming an oblique stock and dictyostelic, bearing paleae or hairs. Fronds pinnately compound; veins free or anastomosing, no included veinlets. Prothallus cordate. About 10 genera of wide distribution.

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Description

Rhizomes erect or creeping, bearing scales or hairs. Fronds very variable in size and dissection. Sporangia on the abaxial surface of the frond, either scattered along anastomosing veins, or borne in sori along veins, at margin, or on a marginal vascular commissure. Indusia 0, or the lamina margin recurved as a modified indusium. Annulus usually vertical. Homosporous; spores lacking chlorophyll.