Anemia (plant)

Anemia
Mexican flowering fern (A. mexicana)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Schizaeales
Family: Anemiaceae
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Genus: Anemia
Sw.
Type species
Anemia phyllitidis
(L.) Sw.
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Anemiaebotrys Fee 1869
  • Anemidictyon Smith 1841 ex Hook. 1842
  • Anemirhiza Smith 1855
  • Colina Greene 1893
  • Coptophyllum Gardner 1842 non Korth. 1850
  • Cryptophyllum Schlechtendahl 1843
  • Hemianemia (Prantl 1881) Reed 1948
  • Mohria Swartz 1806 non Britton 1893
  • Ornithopteris Bernhardi 1805 non (Agardh 1839) Smith 1875
  • Spathepteris Presl 1846
  • Trochopteris Gardner 1842

Anemia is a genus of ferns. It is the only genus in the family Anemiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Anemioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae,[2] the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019.[3] Its species are sometimes called flowering ferns, but this term is more commonly applied to ferns of the genus Osmunda. Fronds are dimorphic; in fertile fronds, the two lowermost pinnae are highly modified to bear the sporangia.

Ferns in this genus have chromosome numbers based on x=38: n=38, 76, 114.[citation needed]

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