Pentarhizidium

Pentarhizidium
Pentarhizidium orientale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Onocleaceae
Genus:
Hayata 1928
Type species
Pentarhizidium japonicum
Hayata 1928
Species
  • P. intermedium
  • P. orientale
Synonyms
  • Onoclea section Pentarhizidium (Hayata 1928) Kato 1980

Pentarhizidium is a genus of two Asian fern species. These species have formerly been included in Matteuccia or Onoclea.[1] Recent genetic analysis has determined that these two species form a discrete clade that is basal to the rest of this fern group, and so have been located in their own genus. P. orientale is sometimes grown as a garden plant.

Species

  • Pentarhizidium intermedium (Christensen 1913) Hayata 1928[1]
  • Pentarhizidium orientale (Hooker 1860) Hayata 1928[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c GJ Gastony and MC Ungerer (1997), "Molecular systematics and a revised taxonomy of the onocleoid ferns (Dryopteridaceae: Onocleeae)", American Journal of Botany, 84 (6): 840–849, doi:10.2307/2445820, JSTOR 2445820, PMID 21708636