Arachniodes | |
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Arachniodes simplicior | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Polypodiales |
Suborder: | Polypodiineae |
Family: | Dryopteridaceae |
Subfamily: | Dryopteridoideae |
Genus: |
Arachniodes Blume |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Arachniodes is a fern genus in the family Dryopteridaceae (wood ferns), subfamily Dryopteridoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). [1] A number of species in this genus are known as "holly ferns". [2]
The genus Arachniodes was first published by Carl Ludwig von Blume in 1828, with the single Indonesian species Arachniodes aspidioides. [3] The genus was not widely recognized until Mary Douglas Tindale transferred the two species (Byrsopteris amabilis and Byrsopteris aristata) into it in 1961. [4]
The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) considers Arachniodes to have 60 species. [1] As of January 2020 [update], the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted 78 species: [5]
Some hybrids were also accepted: [5]