Gleichenia Sm.
Distribution
Native to:
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Angola, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Chatham Is., Free State, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Solomon Is., South Australia, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tasmania, Thailand, Uganda, Victoria, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Mauritius
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Calymella C.Presl in Tent. Pterid.: 48 (1836)
- Gleicheniastrum C.Presl in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 5: 338 (1848)
- Rouxopteris Hong M.Liu in Pl. Syst. Evol. 306(2, 30): 9 (2020)
Accepted Species
- Gleichenia abscida Rodway
- Gleichenia alpina R.Br.
- Gleichenia alstonii Holttum
- Gleichenia boryi Kunze
- Gleichenia circinnata Sw.
- Gleichenia dicarpa R.Br.
- Gleichenia elongata Baker
- Gleichenia inclusisora Perrie, L.D.Sheph. & Brownsey
- Gleichenia matthewii Holttum
- Gleichenia mendellii Van Houtte
- Gleichenia microphylla R.Br.
- Gleichenia paleacea (Copel.) Holttum
- Gleichenia peltophora Copel.
- Gleichenia polypodioides (L.) Sm.
- Gleichenia × punctulata Colenso
- Gleichenia rupestris R.Br.
- Gleichenia vulcanica Blume
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Balkrishna, A., Joshi, B., Sribastava, A., Shankar, R. & Shukla, B.K. (2019). Classification of extant Pteridophytes: a new approach. Indian Fern Journal 36: 311-341.
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0