Marattia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pteridophyta
Classis: Marattiopsida
Ordo: Marattiales

Familia: Marattiaceae
Genus: Marattia
Species: M. alata – M. brassii – M. cicutifolia – M. douglasii – M. excavata – M. interposita – M. laxa – M. weinmanniifolia
Name

Marattia Sw. 1788

Type species: M. alata
Synonyms

Homotypic
Myriotheca Poir. 1798
Discostegia C.Presl 1845

Heterotypic
Gymnotheca C.Presl 1845
Stibasia C.Presl 1845

References

Murdock, A.G. 2008: A taxonomic revision of the eusporangiate fern family Marattiaceae, with description of a new genus Ptisana. Taxon 57(3): 737–755.
Murdock, A.G. 2008: Phylogeny of marattioid ferns (Marattiaceae) inferring a root in the absence of a closely related outgroup. American Journal of Botany 95(5): 626–641.

Marattia is a small genus of primitive, large, fleshy eusporangiate ferns. It is the type genus of the family Marattiaceae, order Marattiales and class Marattiopsida.[1] Formerly considered to be a much larger genus, genetic analysis has shown that Marattia in the broad sense was paraphyletic, and subsequently the genera Ptisana and Eupodium were split off.[2][3] Except for one species in Hawaii, the genus is neotropical.

The plants are large and terrestrial, with more or less erect rhizomes and fronds being 2-5 times pinnate. Sporangia are fused into synangia, and spores are monolete.

Basal chromosome count is 2n=80. The type species is M. alata.
Species list

Marattia alata Sw. – Jamaica and Cuba
Marattia douglasii (C. Presl) Baker – pala, kapua ilio, or Hawaii potato fern; Hawaii
Marattia excavata Underw. – Mexico to Panama
Marattia interposita Christ – Guatemala to Panama
Marattia laxa Kunze – Mexico to Panama
Marattia weinmanniifolia Liebm. – southern Mexico to El Salvador

Phylogeny of Marattia[4][5]

M. douglasii M. laxa M. alata M. weinmanniifolia

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-02-26.
Murdock, Andrew G. (2008). "Phylogeny of marattioid ferns (Marattiaceae) inferring a root in the absence of a closely related outgroup". American Journal of Botany. 95 (5): 626–641. doi:10.3732/ajb.2007308. PMID 21632388.
Murdock, Andrew G. (2008). "A taxonomic revision of the eusporangiate fern family Marattiaceae, with description of a new genus Ptisana". Taxon. 57 (3): 737–755. doi:10.1002/tax.573007.
Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.
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