Dipteridaceae
| Umbrella ferns Temporal range:
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| Dipteris conjugata | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Gleicheniales |
| Family: | Dipteridaceae Seward & E.Dale 1901 |
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The Dipteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Gleicheniales of the class Polypodiopsida.[1] They are commonly known as umbrella ferns and contain two genera, Cheiropleuria and Dipteris,[2] with a total of nine species confined to Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia[3] While currently a small family, they were much more abundant in the Mesozoic era, with the oldest fossils being known from the Middle Triassic of Italy, Australia and Argentina. A number of fossil genera are recognised, including Hausmannia, Clathropteris, Dictyophyllum, Sewardalea, Thaumatopteris, Camptopteris, Patagoniapteris, Goeppertella, and Polyphacelus.[4][5]
The following diagram shows the placement of Dipteridaceae in a likely phylogenic relationship with the other two families of Gleicheniales.[6]
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References
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- ^ Maarten J. M. Christenhusz; Xian-Chun Zhang; Harald Schneider (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. Bibcode:2011Phytx..19....7C. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.
- ^ Christenhusz, M. J. M.; Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3). Magnolia Press: 201–217. Bibcode:2016Phytx.261..201C. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
- ^ Bodnar, Josefina; Drovandi, Juan; Morel, Eduardo; Ganuza, Daniel (2018). "Middle Triassic dipterid ferns from west-central Argentina and their relation to palaeoclimatic changes". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 63. doi:10.4202/app.00459.2018. hdl:11336/86632.
- ^ Choo, Thereis Y. S.; Escapa, Ignacio H. (August 2018). "Assessing the evolutionary history of the fern family Dipteridaceae (Gleicheniales) by incorporating both extant and extinct members in a combined phylogenetic study". American Journal of Botany. 105 (8): 1315–1328. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1121. hdl:11336/98938. ISSN 0002-9122.
- ^ Samuli Lehtonen (2011). "Towards Resolving the Complete Fern Tree of Life". PLOS ONE. 6 (10) e24851. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...624851L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024851. PMC 3192703. PMID 22022365.