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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-31
Page range: 198–200
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 34

New combinations in Struthiopteris spicant for the European flora

Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Borgir vid Nordurslod, 600 Akureyri, Iceland.
Plant Sciences (Botany) Department, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense. Avda. Jose Antonio Nováis, 12. 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Plant Science and Soil Science Department, Faculty of Science, Universidad de Vigo, Lagoas-Marcosende s/n, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.
Pteridophytes Ferns Blechnum Struthiopteris spicant Taxonomy new combinations

Abstract

Delimitation of genera in Blechnaceae Newman (1844: 8), a subcosmopolitan fern family with ca. 250 species, has remained uncertain for a long time. During the last decade, evidence has been accumulating about the polyphyletism within Blechnum Linnaeus (1753: 1077) (e.g. Shepherd et al. 2007, Rothfels et al. 2012, Gabriel y Galán et al. 2013, Perrie et al. 2014). Recent molecular studies (Gasper et al. 2016a) lead to an updated classification attempting to put morphological characters into a natural, phylogenetic relation (Gasper et al. 2016b). Because of these changes, the species most people associate with the genus Blechnum, B. spicant (Linnaeus 1753: 1066) Roth (1794: 56), is now treated under Struthiopteris Scopoli (1754: 25).