Plenasium

Plenasium
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous–Recent
Plenasium vachellii (syn. Osmunda vachellii) in the Shing Mun Arboretum, Hong Kong
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Osmundales
Family: Osmundaceae
Genus: Plenasium
C.Presl[1]
Type species
Plenasium banksiifolium
(Presl) Presl
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Aurealcaulis Tidwell & Parker 1987

Plenasium is a genus of ferns in the family Osmundaceae.[1] It is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I),[2] but kept within a more broadly circumscribed genus Osmunda by other sources.[3] The genus is known from Early Cretaceous to present.[4]

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  4. ^ Bomfleur, Benjamin; Grimm, Guido W.; McLoughlin, Stephen (2017-07-11). "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. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5508817. PMID 28713650.