Crepidomanes intricatum

Weft fern

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Hymenophyllales
Family: Hymenophyllaceae
Genus: Crepidomanes
Species:
C. intricatum
Binomial name
Crepidomanes intricatum
(Farrar) Ebihara & Weakley[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Trichomanes intricatum Farrar

Crepidomanes intricatum, synonym Trichomanes intricatum,[2] is known as the weft fern.[3] The genus Crepidomanes is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I),[4] but not by some other sources. As of October 2019, Plants of the World Online sank the genus into a broadly defined Trichomanes, treating this species as Trichomanes intricatum.[5]

This is an unusual filmy fern that grows in rock shelters and crevices in the eastern United States, with the southern extent in Georgia and extending north into New England.[6] It is known only from its filamentous gametophytes and completely lacks the sporophyte generation.[7] It is a rare plant that is protected in several US states.[7]

Recent study has found a relationship between this species and an Asian filmy-fern species, Crepidomanes schmidianum. Both share the same chloroplast genome, although the relationship between the two species is uncertain.[8] In 2011, Atsushi Ebihara and Alan S. Weakley transferred Trichomanes intricatum to Crepidomanes intricatum based on the chloroplast molecular sequence data.[9]

References

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  1. ^ NatureServe (November 1, 2024). "Trichomanes intricatum". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (August 2019). "Crepidomanes intricatum". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.10. Archived from the original on 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  3. ^ NRCS. "Trichomanes intricatum". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Trichomanes intricatum Farrar". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  6. ^ Pinson et al. (2017). "The Separation of Generations: Biology and Biogeography of Long-Lived Sporophyteless Fern Gametophytes." International Journal of Plant Sciences 178(1):1-18.
  7. ^ a b Farrar, Donald R. (1992). "Trichomanes intricatum: The Independent Trichomanes Gametophyte in the Eastern United States." American Fern Journal, 82(2): 68-74.
  8. ^ Ebihara, Atsushi, Donald R. Farrar, and Motomi Ito (2008). "The sporophyte-less filmy fern of eastern North America Trichomanes intricatum (Hymenophyllaceae) has the chloroplast genome of an Asian species." American Journal of Botany, 95: 1645-1651.
  9. ^ Weakley et al. (2011). "Nomenclatural changes in the flora of the southeastern United States". Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 5(2): 443.