Hiya (plant)

Hiya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Dennstaedtiaceae
Genus: Hiya
H.Shang[1]
Type species
Hiya brooksiae
(Alderw.) H.Shang

Hiya is a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Described in 2018, it resembles ferns of the genus Hypolepis but differs from it by multiple characteristics: scrambling, indeterminate and intermittent growth of fronds; stipule-like pinnules at the base of pinnae, and a rachis-costa architecture where the adaxial sulcus of the rachis is continuous with that of the costae and costules.[1][2]

The name of the genus references the name given to imperial guards from the Qing dynasty of China, hiya, due to the prickly or very rough armed stipes present in the ferns.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Hiya fern was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Insights into Dennstaedtiaceae was invoked but never defined (see the help page).