Grammitidaceae (C.Presl) Ching

Details

Name scientific

Grammitidaceae (C.Presl) Ching, Sunyatsenia 5: 264 (1940)

Preferred name

Grammitidaceae (C.Presl) Ching

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

Grammitidaceae (C.Presl) Ching 1940

Nomenclature

Authors

(C.Presl) Ching

Original authors

C.Presl

Combination authors

Ching

Publication place

Ching, R.C. 1940: On natural classification of the family "Polypodiaceae". Sunyatsenia 5(4): 201–268.

Year published

1940

Publication page

264

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

family

Canonical form

Grammitidaceae

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Grammitidaceae

Descriptions

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

Grammitidaceae (C.Presl) Ching

Description

Sori round to elongate (coenosori), exindusiate, superficial to partly immersed, dorsal. Sporangia with or without paraphyses; annulus vertical, incomplete, dehiscing by transverse slit; spores tetrahedral. Rhizome creeping or condensed, solenostelic, with paleae, sts with hairs. Stipes with single vascular strand. Fronds simple to pinnatifid or pinnate; veins free or with occ. anastomoses. Prothallus cordate. About 10 genera of wide distribution, but generic limits much disputed.