Cosentinia
Cosentinia | |
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In Morocco | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Polypodiales |
Family: | Pteridaceae |
Subfamily: | Pteridoideae |
Genus: | Cosentinia Tod.[1] |
Species: | C. vellea |
Binomial name | |
Cosentinia vellea | |
Subspecies | |
Cosentinia is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae with a single species Cosentinia vellea.[1] Its native distribution ranges from the Canary Islands through Europe, northern Africa and Western Asia to the west Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent.
Subspecies
[edit]As of December 2019[update], the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized two subspecies:[2]
- Cosentinia vellea subsp. bivalens (Reichstein) Rivas Mart. & Salvo
- Cosentinia vellea subsp. ×rivas-martinezii Amp.Castillo & Salvo
- Cosentinia vellea subsp. vellea (Aiton) Tod.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
- ^ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Cosentinia", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, archived from the original on 2017-09-02, retrieved 2019-12-28