Lygodium

Lygodium
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Recent
Lygodium japonicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Schizaeales
Family: Lygodiaceae
C.Presl
Genus: Lygodium
Sw.
Type species
Lygodium scandens
(L.) Sw.
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Arthrolygodes Presl 1845
  • Cteisium Michaux 1803
  • Gisopteris Bernh. 1800
  • Hugona Cavanilles ex Roemer 1801
  • Hydroglossum Willdenow 1802
  • Lygodictyon Smith ex Hook. 1842
  • Odontopteris Bernhardi 1800 non (Brongniart 1822) Sternberg 1825
  • Ramondia de Mirbel 1801
  • Ugena Cavanilles 1801
  • Vallifilix Du Petit-Thouars 1806

Lygodium (climbing fern) is a genus of about 40 species of ferns, native to tropical regions across the world, with a few temperate species in eastern Asia and eastern North America. It is the sole genus in the family Lygodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Lygodioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae,[2] the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019.[3] Per recent molecular evidence, Lygodiaceae is thought to have diverged relatively early from the other members of the Schizaeales due to the relatively high level of synonymous sequence divergence between the families within the Schizaeales.[4]

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  4. ^ Hasebe, M; Omori, T; Nakazawa, M; Sano, T; Kato, M; Iwatsuki, K (1994-06-07). "rbcL gene sequences provide evidence for the evolutionary lineages of leptosporangiate ferns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91 (12): 5730–5734. Bibcode:1994PNAS...91.5730H. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.12.5730. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 44070. PMID 8202555.