Leucostegia

Leucostegia is a genus of ferns in the family Hypodematiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1]

Leucostegia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Polypodiineae
Family: Hypodematiaceae
Genus: Leucostegia
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Species

See text.

Species

As of January 2020, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted the following species:[2]

  • Leucostegia pallida (Mett. ex Kuhn) Copel.
  • Leucostegia truncata (D.Don) Fraser-Jenk.

References
  1. 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
  2. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020), "Leucostegia", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.20, retrieved 2020-01-15


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