Woodsia

Genus of ferns

Woodsia
Woodsia alpina[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Woodsiaceae
Herter[1]
Genus: Woodsia
R.Br.[1][2]

Woodsia is a genus of ferns in the family Woodsiaceae. Species of Woodsia are commonly known as cliff ferns.[4]: 224  In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae.[1] In 2020, Physematium was split off from Woodsia on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence.[5] As of June 2023[update], Plants of the World Online continued to treat Physematium as a synonym of Woodsia.[6]

Species

There are about 25–30 species of the genus Woodsia. As of June 2023[update], World Ferns hosted at World Plants accepted the following species:[7]

  • Woodsia alpina (Bolton) Gray – alpine woodsia
  • Woodsia andersonii (Bedd.) Christ
  • Woodsia asiatica Kiselev & Shmakov
  • Woodsia calcarea (Fomin) Shmakov
  • Woodsia cinnamomea Christ
  • Woodsia cycloloba Hand.-Mazz.
  • Woodsia glabella R.Br. – smooth cliff fern
  • Woodsia gorovoii Krestsch. & Shmakov
  • Woodsia guizhouensis P.S.Wang, Q.Luo & Li Bing Zhang
  • Woodsia hancockii Baker
  • Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R.Br. – oblong woodsia, rusty cliff fern
  • Woodsia kungiana Li Bing Zhang, N.T.Lu & X.F.Gao
  • Woodsia lanosa Hook.
  • Woodsia macrochlaena Mett. ex Kuhn
  • Woodsia macrospora C.Chr. & Maxon
  • Woodsia nikkoensis H.Ogura & Nakaike
  • Woodsia oblonga Ching & S.H.Wu
  • Woodsia okamotoi Tagawa
  • Woodsia pilosa Ching
  • Woodsia polystichoides D.C.Eaton
  • Woodsia pseudopolystichoides (Fomin) Kiselev & Shmakov
  • Woodsia pulchella Bertol.
  • Woodsia rosthorniana Diels
  • Woodsia shensiensis Ching
  • Woodsia sinica Ching
  • Woodsia subcordata Turcz.
  • Woodsia taigischensis (Stepanov) Kuznetsov
  • Woodsia taishanensis F.Z.Li & C.K.Ni

Some hybrids are also known:[7]

  • Woodsia × gracilis (G.Lawson) Butters = W. alpina × W. ilvensis
  • Woodsia × tryonis B.Boivin = W. ilvensis × W. glabella

When the genus Physematium is accepted, × Woodsimatium abbeae is a hybrid between Woodsia ilvensis and Physematium scopulinum.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ "Woodsia R.Br". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  3. ^ illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
  4. ^ Broughton Cobb; Elizabeth Farnsworth; Cheryl Lowe (2005). A Field Guide to Ferns and their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series (2nd ed.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0618394060.
  5. ^ Lu, N.T.; Zhou, X.-M.; Zhang, L.; Knapp, R.; Li, C.-X.; Fan, X.-P.; Zhou, L.; Wei, H.-J.; Lu, J.-M., Xu, B.; Peng, Y.-L.; Gao, X.-F. & Zhang, L.-B. (2020), "A global plastid phylogeny of the cliff fern family Woodsiaceae and a two-genus classification of Woodsiaceae with the description of ×Woodsimatium nothogen. nov.", Taxon, 68 (6): 1149–1172, doi:10.1002/tax.12180, S2CID 213706008{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Physematium Kaulf.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2023-06-13
  7. ^ a b Hassler, Michael. "Woodsia". World Ferns. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  8. ^ Hassler, Michael. "× Woodsimatium". World Ferns. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
Taxon identifiers
Woodsia
Woodsiaceae
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