Matoniaceae

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Family of ferns

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::summary Family of ferns ::

| fossil_range = | image = Matonia pectinata.png | image_caption = Matonia pectinata | taxon = Matoniaceae | authority = C.Presl 1847 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = {{species list | Matonia | R.Br. ex Wall. 1829 | Phanerosorus | Copel. 1909}}

Matoniaceae is one of the three families of ferns in the Gleicheniales order of the Polypodiopsida class. Today the family is much less abundant, and also less diverse, with only two extant genera and four species, which are limited to portions of southeastern Asia.

The following diagram shows a likely phylogenic relationship with the other two families of the Gleicheniales.

|label1=Gleicheniales |1={{clade |1={{clade |label1=Gleicheniaceae |1=6 extant genera |2={{clade |label1=Dipteridaceae |1=2 extant genera |label2=Matoniaceae |2={{clade |1=Matonia |2=Phanerosorus

Extant taxa

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Extinct genera

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Some common Mesozoic Matoniaceae genera and a sampling of their species include:

References

References

  1. (January 2004). "Matoniaceous Ferns (Gleicheniales) from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica". Journal of Paleontology.
  2. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Magnolia Press.
  3. [http://www.huh.harvard.edu/research/mathews-lab/nsn/2006NagalingumCantrill.pdf Nagalingum & Cantrill: Early Cretaceous Gleicheniaceae and Matoniaceae (Gleicheniales) from Alexander Island, Antarctica] ''Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology'' 138 (2006)
  4. (2006). "A classification for extant ferns". Taxon.
  5. Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider. (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns". [[Phytotaxa]].
  6. Samuli Lehtonen. (2011). "Towards Resolving the Complete Fern Tree of Life". PLOS ONE.
  7. Robbin C. Moran. (2004). "A Natural History of Ferns". Timber Press, Portland & Cambridge.

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