Marattiaceae Kaulf.

Details

Name scientific

Marattiaceae Kaulf., Enum. Filic. 31 (1824)

Preferred name

Marattiaceae Kaulf.

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

Marattiaceae

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Kaulf.

Original authors

Kaulf.

Publication place

Kaulfuss, G.F. 1824: Enumeratio Filicum. Cnobloch, Leipzig.

Year published

1824

Publication page

Nomenclatural status

conserved

nom. cons.

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Marattiaceae Kaulf.

Type taxon

Marattia Sw.

Taxonomic rank

family

Canonical form

Marattiaceae

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Marattiales

Family

Marattiaceae

Subordinates

Descriptions

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

Marattiaceae Kaulf.

Description

Sori dorsal, on veins; sporangia eusporangiate, thick-walled, opening us. by a longitudinal split, often fused into synangia. Fronds circinate, us. compound, attached to caudex by a swollen joint flanked by stipule-like processes; pinnae jointed. Six, mainly tropical, genera.