Pseudodiphasium
Appearance
Pseudodiphasium | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Class: | Lycopodiopsida |
Order: | Lycopodiales |
Family: | Lycopodiaceae |
Subfamily: | Lycopodioideae |
Genus: | Pseudodiphasium (G.Forst.) Holub[1] |
Type species | |
Lycopodium volubile G.Forst.
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Pseudodiphasium is a genus of lycophyte in the family Lycopodiaceae with only one species, Pseudodiphasium volubile. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the genus is placed in the subfamily Lycopodioideae.[2] Some sources do not recognize the genus, sinking it into Lycopodium.[3] Pseudodiphasium volubile is native from Peninsular Malaysia to Queensland, Australia, and has been introduced into Ecuador.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Josef Ludwig Holub formally raised this group to the status of genus as Pseudodiphasium in 1983.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hassler, Michael. "Pseudodiphasium". World Ferns. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Pseudodiphasium Holub", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-12-08
- ^ Holub, Josef (1983). "Validation of Generic Names in Lycopodiaceae: With a Description of a New Genus Pseudolycopodiella". Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica. 18 (4): 439–442. doi:10.1007/BF02857270. JSTOR 4180465.