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  2. Pteridophyte - Wikipedia

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    A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that reproduces by means of spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails (often treated as ferns), and lycophytes (clubmosses, spikemosses, and ...

  3. Pteridaceae - Wikipedia

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    Pteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales, [2] including some 1150 known species in ca 45 genera [3] (depending on taxonomic opinions), divided over five subfamilies. [4] The family includes four groups of genera that are sometimes recognized as separate families: the adiantoid, cheilanthoid, pteridoid, and hemionitidoid ferns.

  4. Pteris - Wikipedia

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    Pteris. Campteria Presl 1836 nom. superfl. Pteris (brake) is a genus of about 300 species of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. [1][2] They are native to tropical and subtropical regions, southward to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, north to Japan and North America. 78 species (35 endemic) are found in ...

  5. Pteris vittata - Wikipedia

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    Pycnodoria vittata (L.) Small. Pteris vittata, the Chinese brake, [4] Chinese ladder brake, [4] or simply ladder brake, [4] is a fern species in the Pteridoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. [5] It is indigenous to Asia, southern Europe, tropical Africa, and Australia. [4] The type specimen was collected in China by Pehr Osbeck.

  6. Polypodiaceae - Wikipedia

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    Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder Polypodiineae. [1] A broader circumscription has also been used, in which the family includes other families kept separate ...

  7. Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group - Wikipedia

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    The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish on the classification of pteridophytes (lycophytes and ferns) that reflects knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies. In 2016, the group published a classification for extant ...

  8. Leptosporangiate fern - Wikipedia

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    Leptosporangiate fern. Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm.[1] The Polypodiidae, commonly called leptosporangiate ferns, formerly Leptosporangiatae, are one of four subclasses of ferns, the largest of these being the largest group of living ferns, including some 11,000 species worldwide. [2][3][4] The group has also been treated as the class ...

  9. Pteridoideae - Wikipedia

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    Pteridoideae is one of the five subfamilies of the fern family Pteridaceae. This subfamily contains about 14 genera [1] and around 400 species. [2]