Plagiogyria

Plagiogyria
Plagiogyria egenolfioides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Cyatheales
Family: Plagiogyriaceae
Bower
Genus: Plagiogyria
(Kunze) Mett.
Type species
Plagiogyria euphlebia
(Kunze) Mettenius
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Polygramma Presl

Plagiogyria is a genus of ferns, the only genus in family Plagiogyriaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Plagiogyrioideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae,[2] the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019.[3]

Ferns of this genus present two kind of fronds, the fertile ones longer than the sterile. These ferns are found on forest soils in mountainous areas of tropical and subtropical regions. Most are native to Asia; one is found in the Americas.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference PPGI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ChriChas14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference POWO_65464-3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Plagiogyriaceae. Flora of China.