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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Gleicheniaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Gleicheniaceae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Polypodiophyta Cronquist syn. Filicinophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966. common name: ferns       Subdivisio  Polypodiophytina Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.       Classis  Polypodiopsida Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.       Subclassis  Polypodiidae Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.       Ordo  Gleicheniales A.B. Frank in Leunis pub. Syn. Pflanzenk., ed. 2, 3: 1453. 1877.    Subordo  Gleicheniineae Bessey pub. Bot. High Schools: 376. Mai-Sep 1880.    Familia  Gleicheniaceae (R. Br.) C. Presl pub. Reliq. Haenk. 1: 70. Jun-Nov 1825.

Named members of the Family Gleicheniaceae

1	Genus  Acropterygium (Diels) Nakai syn. Dicranopteris Bernh.
2	Genus  Calymella C.Presl syn. Gleichenia Sm.
3	Genus  Dicranopteris Bernh. pub. (1805) common name: forkedfern
4	Genus  Diplopterygium (Diels) Nakai
5	Genus  Gleichenella Ching syn. Dicranopteris Bernh.
6	Genus  Gleicheniastrum C.Presl syn. Gleichenia Sm.
7	Subfamilia  Gleichenioideae (R. Br.) Sweet pub. Hort. Brit.: 460. Sep-Oct 1826.
	8    Tribus  Gleichenieae Gaudich. in Freyc. pub. Voy. Uranie, Bot.: 257. 16 Aug 1828.   9    Genus  Gleichenia Sm. pub. (1793)
10	Genus  Hicriopteris C.Presl syn. Dicranopteris Bernh.
11	Genus  Mesosorus Hassk. syn. Dicranopteris Bernh.
12	Genus  Sticherus C.Presl common name: umbrella fern

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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