Didymoglossum

Didymoglossum
Didymoglossum reptans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Hymenophyllales
Family: Hymenophyllaceae
Subfamily: Trichomanoideae
Genus: Didymoglossum
Desv.[1]
Type species
Didymoglossum muscoides
(Dw.) Desvaux 1827
Subgenera
  • Subg. Didymoglossum
  • Subg. Microgonium
Synonyms
  • Hemiphlebium Presl 1843
  • Lecanium Presl 1843 non Reinwardt 1825
  • Lecanolepis Pichi-Sermolli 1973
  • Microgonium Presl 1843

Didymoglossum is a tropical genus of ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae. It comprises more than 30 epilithic or low-epiphytic species under two subgenera.[2] The genus is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not by some other sources which sink it into a broadly defined Trichomanes.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference CFLW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Ebihara et al.: A Taxonomic Revision of Hymenophyllaceae Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, Volume 51, Number 2, July 2006 , pp. 221-280(60)