Angiopteris smithii
| Angiopteris smithii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Marattiales |
| Family: | Marattiaceae |
| Genus: | Angiopteris |
| Species: | A. smithii
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| Binomial name | |
| Angiopteris smithii Racib.
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| Synonyms | |
Angiopteris smithii is a species of fern in the family Marattiaceae, which is native to Borneo, the Philippines, and Sulawesi.[1] Unlike other forms of Angiopteris species, it is once-pinnate with huge leaflets up to 16 inches (41 cm) long and 4 inches (10 cm) wide.[2]
Taxonomy
Angiopteris smithii was first scientifically described by Marian Raciborski in 1902, based on cultivated material at Buitenzorg.[3] In 1908, Edwin Copeland described a new genus of Marattiaceae, Macroglossum, in which he included a single newly described species, Macroglossum alidae. Named for the wife of Cecil Joslin Brooks, it was collected in Sarawak by H. S. Young.[4] Douglas H. Campbell collected a quantity of material in Sarawak in 1913 to study the species, and after correspondence with Copeland, concluded that it was closely related but not identical to the material at Buitenzorg, which he transferred to Macroglossum as Macroglossum smithii in 1914.[5] Subsequent authors doubted whether these species were, in fact, distinct, and a revision of Angiopteris by Cristina Rolleri in 2003 subsumed Macroglossum in that genus and treated the two species as conspecific under the name A. smithii.[6]
References
- ^ "Angiopteris smithii Racib". Plants of the World Online.
- ^ Van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Capt. C.R.W.K. (1908). Malayan Ferns. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij. p. 762.
- ^ Raciborski, M. M. (1902). "Über einige unbekannte Farne des malayischen Archipels". Bulletin international de l'Académie des sciences de Cracovie. Classe des sciences mathématiques et naturelles (in German): 54.
- ^ Copeland, Edwin Bingham (1908). "New genera and species of Bornean ferns". The Phillippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 3: 343.
- ^ Campbell, Douglas H. (1914). "The genus Macroglossum Copeland". The Phillippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 9: 219.
- ^ Rolleri, Cristina H. (2003). "Caracteres diagnósticos y taxonomía en el género Angiopteris Hoffm. (Marattiaceae Bercht. & J. S. Presl) II, Sinopsis de las especies". Revista del Museo de La Plata. Seccion Botánica. (in Spanish). 16 (116): 18.