Cosentinia

Cosentinia is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae with a single species Cosentinia vellea.[1] Its native distribution ranges from the Canary Islands through Europe, northern Africa and Western Asia to the west Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent.

Cosentinia
In Morocco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Pteridoideae
Genus: Cosentinia
Tod.[1]
Species:
C. vellea
Binomial name
Cosentinia vellea
(Aiton) Tod.[1]
Subspecies

See text.

Subspecies

As of December 2019, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized two subspecies:[2]

  • Cosentinia vellea subsp. bivalens (Reichstein) Rivas Mart. & Salvo
  • Cosentinia vellea subsp. ×rivas-martinezii Amp.Castillo & Salvo
  • Cosentinia vellea subsp. vellea (Aiton) Tod.

References

  1. PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
  2. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Cosentinia", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, retrieved 2019-12-28
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