Ormopteris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Familia: Pteridaceae
Subfamilia: Cheilanthoideae
Genus: Ormopteris
Species: O. crenata – O. cymbiformis – O. gleichenioides – O. pinnata – O. riedelii

Name

Ormopteris J.Sm., Hist. Fil.: 281 (1875).

• Type species: Ormopteris gleichenioides (Gardner) J.Sm., Hist. Fil. 281 (1875) = Cassebeera gleichenioides Gardner, Icon. Pl. 6: t. 507 (1843).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Pellaea sect. Ormopteris (J.Sm.) R.M.Tryon & A.F.Tryon, Rhodora 83(833): 135 (1981).
  • Pellaea subg. Ormopteris (J.Sm.) C.Chr., Index Filic.: xl (1906).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America Regional: Central America Belize, Costa Rica, Central American Pacific Islands, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Regional: Caribbean Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Islands, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Islands. Regional: Northern South America Venezuela. Regional: Western South America Bolivia. Regional: Brazil Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Smith, J. 1875. Historia Filicum; an exposition of the nature, number, and organography of ferns. 429 pp., Macmillan, London. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Yesilyurt, J.C., Barbará, T., Schneider, H., Russell, S., Culham, A. & Gibby, M. 2015. Identifying the generic limitis of the Cheilanthoid genus Doryopteris. Phytotaxa 221(2): 101–122. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.221.2.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2021. Ormopteris. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Feb 4. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Ormopteris in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Feb 4. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2021. Ormopteris. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 4 Feb 2021.
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Ormopteris. Published online. Accessed: 4 Feb 2021.