Diplazium

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Genus of ferns

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::summary Genus of ferns ::

| image = Diplazium dietrichianum RBG Sydney.jpg | image_caption = Diplazium dietrichianum | taxon = Diplazium | authority = Sw. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See List of Diplazium species | synonyms = |Allantodia |Wall. |Allantodia |R.Br. |Anisogonium |C.Presl |Arcasplenium |T.Moore ex Baker |Brachysorus |C.Presl |Callipteridastrum |Fée |Callipteris |Bory |Didymochlamys |T.Moore |Digrammaria |C.Presl |Lotzea |Klotzsch & H.Karst. |Microstegia |C.Presl |Monomelangium |Hayata |Ochlogramma |C.Presl |Oxygonium |C.Presl |Pteriglyphis |Fée |Triblemma |(J.Sm.) Ching | synonyms_ref =

Diplazium is a genus of ferns that specifically includes the approximately 400 known species of twinsorus ferns. The Greek root is diplazein meaning double: the indusia in this genus lie on both sides of the vein. These ferns were earlier considered part of either the Athyriaceae, Dryopteridaceae, Aspleniaceae, or Polypodiaceae families or recognized as belonging to their own taxonomic family. The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) places the genus in the Athyriaceae. The taxonomy of the genus is difficult and poorly known, and by 2009 has never been the subject of a complete monographic study. Their distribution is pantropical, with a few species extending into temperate areas.

The rhizome of the genus Diplazium varies from creeping to erect, and is scaly. Its fronds are deciduous or evergreen, are trophopodicThe trophopod is food storage organ described from a number of North American ferns. It consists of the enlarged and modified leaf base filled with starch storage tissue. See W. H. Wagner, Jr. and D. M. Johnson, Taxon, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May, 1983), pp. 268-269 for more information on this organ. and are either monomorphic or weakly dimorphic. The stipe is green, deeply grooved from above, and is either scaly or glabrous. It always has two lunate vascular bundles. The blades are either singular or in sets of two and are entirely pinnate, range from oblong-lanceolate to deltate, and from herbaceous to papery. It has linear basal sori that are paired back-to-back on the same vein. The indusium is linear and persistent, and the sporangia are brownish.

Some common species include Diplazium hymenodes, the peacock fern; Diplazium esculentum, the vegetable fern; Diplazium molokaiense, the Molokai twinsorus fern; and Diplazium lonchophyllum, the lance-leaved glade fern.

Taxonomy

Diplazium is in the family Athyriaceae in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales.

Selected species

Main article: List of Diplazium species

Notes

References

References

  1. "[[Flora of North America]]".
  2. PPG I. (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution.
  3. Leticia Pacheco and Robbin C. Moran. Lectotypification of Several Names Currently Placed in Diplazium (Woodsiaceae). ''American Fern Journal'', Vol. 93, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 2003), pp. 90-92
  4. {{GRIN. ''Diplazium esculentum''. 403231
  5. (2016). "Desmophlebiaceae and ''Desmophlebium'': A new family and genus of Eupolypod II ferns". Taxon.
  6. (2025). "''Diplazium'' Sw.". Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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