Lonchitis

Lonchitis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Lindsaeineae
Family: Lonchitidaceae
Doweld 2006
Genus: Lonchitis
L. 1753 non Bubani 1901[1]
Type species
Lonchitis hirsuta
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Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Anisosorus Trevis. 1851 ex Maxon 1926
  • Antiosorus Roem. ex Kuhn 1882

Lonchitis is a neotropical genus of ferns. It is the sole genus in the family Lonchitidaceae. At one time Lonchitis was placed in the Dennstaedtiaceae, and then transferred to the Lindsaeaceae, before being placed in its own family.[3]

  1. ^ Christenhusz et al. "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" Phytotaxa 19: 7-54. 18 Feb. 2011
  2. ^ Lonchitis Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 03 Feb 2012
  3. ^ Lehtonen et al.: Phylogenetics and classification of the pantropical fern family Lindsaeaceae[permanent dead link] in the Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 2010