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Marattiales

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Description

Marattiaceae is the only family of extant (living) ferns in the order Marattiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Marattiales is the only order in the subclass Marattiidae. The family has six genera and about 110 species. Many are different in appearance from other ferns, having large fronds and fleshy rootstocks.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)394https://www.gbif.org/species/394
Rankorder
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Marattiales
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
kingdomPlantaeHaeckel 1866
phylumTracheophyta
classPolypodiopsida
orderMarattiales
Scientific NameMarattiales
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marattiales

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Asterothecaceae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Marattiaceae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
117393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
0 Ma
Extant
Ptychocarpaceae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Weichseliaceae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Corsinopteris
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

References

Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0119248. - via World Register of Marine Species
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Xian-Chun Zhang, and Harald Schneider, 2011: A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa, vol. 19. 7-54. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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!
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