Culcita | |
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Culcita macrocarpa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Cyatheales |
Family: |
Culcitaceae Pic.Serm. |
Genus: |
Culcita C.Presl |
Type species | |
Culcita macrocarpa | |
Species | |
Culcita is a genus of ferns, native to the Americas, Macaronesia and Iberian Peninsula. It is the only genus in the family Culcitaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). [1] Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Culcitoideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae, [2] the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019 [update]. [3]
Only two species are known: [4]
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Culcita coniifolia (Hook.) Maxon | Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela | |
Culcita macrocarpa C. Presl | Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, Portugal, Spain |
Culcita | |
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Culcita macrocarpa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Cyatheales |
Family: |
Culcitaceae Pic.Serm. |
Genus: |
Culcita C.Presl |
Type species | |
Culcita macrocarpa | |
Species | |
Culcita is a genus of ferns, native to the Americas, Macaronesia and Iberian Peninsula. It is the only genus in the family Culcitaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). [1] Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Culcitoideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae, [2] the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019 [update]. [3]
Only two species are known: [4]
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Culcita coniifolia (Hook.) Maxon | Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela | |
Culcita macrocarpa C. Presl | Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, Portugal, Spain |