Osmundastrum

Osmundastrum
Temporal range: Norian–Holocene
Developing spore-bearing frond and several sterile fronds in late spring

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Osmundales
Family: Osmundaceae
Genus: Osmundastrum
(C.Presl) C.Presl
Type species
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
(von Linné 1753) Presl 1848
Species
Synonyms
  • Osmunda (Osmundastrum) Presl 1845

Osmundastrum is genus of leptosporangiate ferns in the family Osmundaceae with one living species, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, the cinnamon fern. It is native to the Americas and eastern Asia, growing in swamps, bogs and moist woodlands.

In North America it occurs from southern Labrador west to Ontario, and south through the eastern United States to eastern Mexico and the West Indies; in South America it occurs west to Peru and south to Paraguay. In Asia it occurs from southeastern Siberia south through Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan to Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Osmundastrum cinnamomeum has a fossil record extending into the Late Cretaceous of North America, approximately 70 million years ago, making it one of the oldest living plant species.[5][6] The fossil records of the genus extend into the Triassic.

  1. ^ Bazhenova, N. V.; Bazhenov, A. V. (2019). "Stems of a New Osmundaceous Fern from the Middle Jurassic of Kursk Region, European Russia". Paleontological Journal. 53 (5): 540–550. Bibcode:2019PalJ...53..540B. doi:10.1134/S0031030119050034. S2CID 203848747. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Bomfleur, B.; Grimm, G. W.; McLoughlin, S. (2017). "The fossil Osmundales (royal ferns)—a phylogenetic network analysis, revised taxonomy, and evolutionary classification of anatomically preserved trunks and rhizomes". PeerJ. 5: e3433. doi:10.7717/peerj.3433. PMC 5508817. PMID 28713650.
  3. ^ Benjamin Bomfleur; Guido W. Grimm; Stephen McLoughlin (2017). "The fossil Osmundales (Royal Ferns)—a phylogenetic network analysis, revised taxonomy, and evolutionary classification of anatomically preserved trunks and rhizomes". PeerJ. 5: e3433. doi:10.7717/peerj.3433. PMC 5508817. PMID 28713650.
  4. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 - Osmunda cinnamomea Cinnamon Fern". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  5. ^ Serbet, Rudolph; Rothwell, Gar W. (March 1999). "Osmunda cinnamomea (Osmundaceae) in the Upper Cretaceous of Western North America: Additional Evidence for Exceptional Species Longevity among Filicalean Ferns". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 160 (2): 425–433. doi:10.1086/314134. ISSN 1058-5893. S2CID 84290371.
  6. ^ Rothwell, Gar W.; Stockey, Ruth A.; Smith, Selena Y. (December 2020). "Revisiting the Late Cretaceous Parataxodium wigginsii flora from the North Slope of Alaska, a high-latitude temperate forest". Cretaceous Research. 116: 104592. Bibcode:2020CrRes.11604592R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104592. S2CID 224893472.