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[ Pteridella ] [ Pteridium ] [ Pteridoblechnum ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pteridium

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pteridium

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  Parkeriales A.B. Frank in Leunis pub. Syn. Pflanzenk., ed. 2, 3: 1453. 1877.       Familia  Dennstaedtiaceae Lotsy pub. Vortr. Bot. Stammesgesch. 2: 655. Jul-Sep 1909.       Genus  Pteridium Gled. ex Scop. pub. (1760)

Named members of the Genus Pteridium

1	Species  aquilinum (L.) Kuhn common name: bracken fern, Bun Rainich  (Gaelic), brake
	2    Varietas  arachnoideum (Kaulfuss) Brade syn. Pteridium arachnoideum 3    Subspecies  caudatum (L.) Bonap. syn. Pteridium caudatum 4    Varietas  caudatum (L.) Sadebeck syn. Pteridium caudatum 5    Varietas  decompositum (Gaud.) R. Tryon common name: decomposition brackenfern 6    Subspecies  lanuginosum (Bong.) Hult�n syn. Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens 7    Varietas  lanuginosum (Bong.) Fern. syn. Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens 8    Varietas  latiusculum (Desv.) Underwood ex Heller common name: western brackenfern 9    Varietas  pseudocaudatum (Clute) Heller common name: western brackenfern 10    Varietas  pubescens Underwood common name: hairy brackenfern
11	Species  arachnoideum (Kaulfuss) Maxon common name: tropical brackenfern
12	Species  caudatum (L.) Maxon common name: southern brackenfern
13	Species  Gleditsch ex Scop. common name: brackenfern
14	Species  latiusculum (Desv.) Hieron.
	15    Varietas  pseudocaudatum (Clute) Maxon syn. Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum

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

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

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