Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pteridophyta
Classis: Polypodiopsida
Ordo: Schizaeales
Familia: Schizaeaceae
Genus: Schizaea
Species: S. australis – S. bifida – S. dichotoma – S. fistulosa – S. pusilla
Name
Schizaea Sm., Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. (Turin) 5: 419, t. 9, fig. 9. 1793.
References
Primary references
Vernacular names
中文: 莎草蕨属
Schizaea is a small genus of specialized ferns in the family Schizaeaceae. Common names include curlygrass fern[1] and comb fern. Some species are very small and inconspicuous, and so may often be overlooked in nature. The genus is distinctive and not at all like the common conception of a fern, though it is still considered a true fern (leptosporangiate). The sterile fronds (trophophylls) are grass-like, and the spore-bearing fertile frond (sporophyll) is similar, but with a small, pinnate fertile segment at its apex. The upper surface of the pinnules bear the sessile capsules.[2] Various of the roughly two dozen species have been reported from widely separated regions, including much of the tropical Old and New World, parts of the Eastern USA, Chile, the Falkland Islands, and various Pacific islands, including several islands of New Caledonia, as well as Australia and New Zealand.[3] In Africa at least two species are endemic to South Africa.[2]
Species
Schizaea amazonica (Christ) Takeuchi
Schizaea australis Gaudich. -- Southern comb fern
Schizaea bifida Willd. -- Forked comb fern
Schizaea boninensis (Nakai) H. Ohba
Schizaea dichotoma (L.) Sm. -- Fan fern
Schizaea elegans (Vahl) Sw.
Schizaea fistulosa Labill. -- Comb fern, narrow comb fern
Schizaea fluminensis Miers ex Sturm
Schizaea incurvata Schkuhr
Schizaea kikuzatonis M.Ogata
Schizaea malaccana Bak.
Schizaea montis-petrae Brade
Schizaea pacificans Mart.
Schizaea pectinata (L.) Sw.
Schizaea poeppigiana Sturm
Schizaea pseudodichotoma Bierh.
Schizaea pusilla Pursh -- Curly grass fern, eastern North America
Schizaea rhacoindusiata Bierh.
Schizaea rupestris R. Br.
Schizaea sprucei Hook. ex Bak.; Hook.
Schizaea stricta Lellinger
Schizaea tenella Kaulf.
Schizaea × diversispora Bierh.
References
USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Schizaea". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
Sim, Thomas Robertson (1915). The Ferns of South Africa. London & Edinburgh: Cambridge University Press.
Brian Swale, Michael Hassler. Family Schizaeaceae, genus Schizaea. http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/fern/schizaea.htm
World species list for Schizaea: http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/fern/schizaea.htm
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