Marattia

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title: "Marattia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["marattiidae", "ferns-of-the-americas", "fern-genera", "taxa-named-by-olof-swartz", "taxa-described-in-1788"] description: "Genus of ferns" topic_path: "general/marattiidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marattia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of ferns ::

| image = Starr-111003-0516-Marattia douglasii-habit-Waikamoi Flume Rd-Maui (25118243055).jpg | image_caption = Marattia douglasii | taxon = Marattia | authority = Swartz | type_species = Marattia alata | type_species_authority = Swartz | diversity = | diversity_link = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms =

• Celanthera Thouin
• Myriotheca Commerson ex de Jussieu non Zeiller
• Discostegia Presl
• Stibasia Presl
• †Angiopteridium Schimper

Marattia is a small genus of basal, large, fleshy eusporangiate ferns.

Formerly considered to be a much larger genus, genetic analysis has shown that Marattia in the broad sense was paraphyletic, and subsequently the genera Ptisana and Eupodium were split off. Except for one species in Hawaii, the genus is neotropical.

The plants are large and terrestrial, with more or less erect rhizomes and fronds being 2-5 times pinnate. Sporangia are fused into synangia, and spores are monolete.

Basal chromosome count is 2n=80. The type species is M. alata.

Taxonomy

The Smith et al. classification of 2006, based on molecular phylogeny, placed Marattia in Marattiaceae. It is the type genus of the family Marattiaceae, order Marattiales and class Marattiopsida. Subsequent classifications have maintained this placement.{{cite journal |last1=Christenhusz |first1=Maarten J. M. |author-link1=Maarten J. M. Christenhusz |last2=Zhang |first2=Xian-Chun |last3=Schneider |first3=Harald |year=2011 |title=A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns |journal=Phytotaxa|volume=19|pages=7–54 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2 |url=http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2011/f/pt00019p054.pdf}}

Species list

• Marattia alata Sw. – Jamaica and Cuba
• Marattia douglasii (C. Presl) Baker – pala, kapua ilio, or Hawaii potato fern; Hawaii
• Marattia excavata Underw. – Mexico to Panama
• Marattia interposita Christ – Guatemala to Panama
• Marattia laxa Kunze – Mexico to Panama
• Marattia weinmanniifolia Liebm. – southern Mexico to El Salvador

Phylogeny of Marattia |1={{Clade |1=M. douglasii |2={{Clade |1=M. laxa |2={{Clade |1=M. alata |2=M. weinmanniifolia

References

References

1. Murdock, Andrew G.. (2008). "Phylogeny of marattioid ferns (Marattiaceae) inferring a root in the absence of a closely related outgroup". American Journal of Botany.
2. Murdock, Andrew G.. (2008). "A taxonomic revision of the eusporangiate fern family Marattiaceae, with description of a new genus Ptisana". Taxon.
3. (2006). "A classification for extant ferns". [[Taxon (journal).
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5. PPG I. (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". [[Journal of Systematics and Evolution]].
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