Acrosorus

Acrosorus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida (disputed)
Order: Polypodiales
(unranked): Eupolypods I
Family: Polypodiaceae
Subfamily: Polypodioideae
Genus: Acrosorus
Copel.
Type species
Acrosorus exaltatus
(Copel.) Copel.
Species

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Acrosorus is a genus of grammitid ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, known from the Philippines, Malesia, Thailand, and the Pacific islands.

Description

Members of the genus bear a single sorus on each pinna of the divided leaf blade. The edges of the pinnae are rolled back towards their tips and cover the sori.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus was created by Edwin Copeland in 1906, to accommodate a group of ferns similar to Prosaptia and until then classified in Davallia.[1]

Currently recognized species in the genus are:

References

  1. 1 2 Copeland, Edwin (1906). "New Philippine Ferns". Philippine Journal of Science. 1 supp. 2: 158.
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