Lonchitidaceae

<i>Lonchitis</i>

Lonchitis

Genus of ferns

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]

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Phylogeny

Plants of the World Online as of As of January 2023 recognizes the following species:[4]

Phylogeny of Lonchitis[5][6]

L. occidentalis Baker 1867

L. currorii (Hooker) Mett. ex Kuhn 1879 [syn. Lonchitis mannii (Baker) Alston 1956]

L. hirsuta L. 1753

References

  1. [1]
    Christenhusz et al. "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" Phytotaxa 19: 7-54. 18 Feb. 2011
  2. [2]
    Lonchitis Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 03 Feb 2012
  3. [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
  4. [4]
    "Lonchitis - Plants of the World Online". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  5. [5]
    Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.
  6. [6]
    "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.4.0 [GenBank release 253]. 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
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