Botrychiaceae
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| Botrychiaceae | |
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| Botrychium lunaria | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Psilotopsida |
| Order: | Ophioglossales |
| Family: | Botrychiaceae |
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Botrychiaceae (moonwort family) is a segregate family of ferns. The family includes the genera Botrychium (the moonworts), Botrypus (the rattlesnake fern), and Sceptridium (the grape-ferns). Older fern classifications took a broad circumscription of Botrychium and included the genus in family Ophioglossaceae.
The family is not recognized in the classification of Smith et al.,[1] who instead subsume the Botrychiaceae into the Ophioglossaceae.
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, Alan R.; Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider, & Paul G. Wolf (2006). "A classification for extant ferns" (PDF). Taxon 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646. JSTOR 25065646. http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf.
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