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Lygodium
| Description | Lygodium (climbing fern) is a genus of about 40 species of ferns, native to tropical regions across the world, with a few temperate species in eastern Asia and eastern North America. It is the sole genus in the family Lygodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Lygodioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae, the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygodium, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source Data |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Schizaeales : Lygodiaceae : Lygodium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Pteridophyta : Pteridopsida : Schizaeales : Schizaeaceae : Lygodium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Lygodium Sw. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (25%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 89.3 - 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | H. D. MacGinitie. 1941. A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534:1-178 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Klätterbräknar, Climbing Fern, Climbing Ferns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygodium |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Lygodium altum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium articulatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium auriculatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium bifidum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium boivinii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium borneense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium circinnatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium coloradensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Lygodium compactum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium cubense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium dimorphum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium dinmorphyllum ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 7 | 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 33.9 Ma Oligocene | |
| Lygodium exquisitum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium fayae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium flexuosum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium hastataforme species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium heterodoxum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium hians species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium japonicum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium kaulfussi species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 61 | 56.0 Ma Paleocene | 33.9 Ma Oligocene | |
| Lygodium kerstenii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium lanceolatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium lancetillanum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium larsoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium longifolium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium marvinei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium merrillii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium microphyllum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium mississippiensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium neuropteroides species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium oligostachyum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium palmatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium polystachyum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium pumilum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium radiatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium reticulatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium salicifolium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium smithianum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium spatulatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium trifurcatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium trilobatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium venustum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium versteegii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium volubile species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lygodium yunnanense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1941 | Lygodium MacGinitie |
| 2000 | Lygodium Mabberley |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
