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Issue: Vol. 269 No. 1: 29 July 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.1.8
Page range: 59–60
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 18

Clarification of the typification of Pteris argyraea (Pteridaceae)

Botanical Survey of India, Central National Herbarium, Howrah 711103, West Bengal, India. Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani–741235, West Bengal, India.
Botanical Survey of India, Central National Herbarium, Howrah 711103, West Bengal, India.
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani–741235, West Bengal, India.
Holotype Lectotype India Pteridophytes

Abstract

Pteris argyraea Moore (1859: 671), commonly known as silver brake fern, is originally a south-east Asian species, but now cultivated as an ornamental plant throughout the tropical regions of the world.