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Angiopteris
Sign in to saveAngiopteris is a genus of huge evergreen ferns from the family Marattiaceae, found throughout the paleotropics from Madagascar to the South Pacific islands.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderMarattiales
- FamilyMarattiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 583
- With media
- 510
- Family
- Marattiaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, VT, MEL, RSA, CAS, ANSP
- Recorded in
- Philippines, China, New Caledonia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Marattiaceae
- Image
- Angiopteris evecta Coffs Harbour.jpg
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- taxon common name
- 观音座莲属
- taxon name
- Angiopteris
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Angiopteris
- Commons category
- Angiopteris
- taxonomic type
- Angiopteris evecta
- chromosome count
- 80
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Species
- References
Angiopteris is a genus of huge evergreen ferns from the family Marattiaceae, found throughout the paleotropics from Madagascar to the South Pacific islands.
They feature a large, erect, woody rhizome with a wide base supported by thick roots. The fronds are deltoid, pinnate, long, with spreading leaflets. At the base of the fronds is a pair of thick, leathery stipules — in the case of A. canaliculata, measuring up to long and wide. Species of smaller stature with elongate synangia and creeping rhizomes are sometimes segregated into the genus Archangiopteris, and a once-pinnate monotypic segregate genus has been called Macroglossum, but molecular data supports inclusion of these taxa within a broad concept of Angiopteris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angiopteris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.