Woodsia
Genus of ferns
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::summary Genus of ferns ::
::callout[type=note] the genus of plants ::
| image = Illustration Woodsia alpina0.jpg | image_caption = Woodsia alpina | parent_authority = Herter | taxon = Woodsia | authority = R.Br. | type_species = Woodsia ilvensis | type_species_authority = (von Linné) Brown | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms =
- Eriosoriopsis (Kitagawa 1935) Ching & Wu 1991
- Trichocyclus Dulac 1867 non N.E. Br. 1922
Woodsia is a genus of ferns in the family Woodsiaceae. Species of Woodsia are commonly known as cliff ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae. In 2020, Physematium was split off from Woodsia on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence. , Plants of the World Online continued to treat Physematium as a synonym of Woodsia.
Phylogeny
There are about 25–30 species of the genus Woodsia. , World Ferns hosted at World Plants accepted the following species:
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Some hybrids are also known:
- Woodsia × gracilis (G.Lawson) Butters = W. alpina × W. ilvensis
- Woodsia × tryonis B.Boivin = W. ilvensis × W. glabella
When the genus Physematium is accepted, × Woodsimatium abbeae is a hybrid between Woodsia ilvensis and Physematium scopulinum.
References
References
- illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- "''Woodsia''".
- (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science.
- (2024). "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL".
- "× ''Woodsimatium''".
- (2020). "A global plastid phylogeny of the cliff fern family Woodsiaceae and a two-genus classification of Woodsiaceae with the description of ×''Woodsimatium'' nothogen. nov.". Taxon.
- "''Physematium'' Kaulf.".
- "''Woodsia'' R.Br.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- PPG I. (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution.
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