Marattia Alata

	Marattia Alata ''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. 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Marattia Douglasii ''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. 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Marattia Excavata ''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. 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Ferns Of The Americas A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except the lycopods, and differ from mosses and other bryophytes by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the branched sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species. Ferns are defined here in the broad sense, being all of the Polypodiopsida, comprising both the leptosporangiate (Polypodiidae) and eusporangiate ferns, the latter group including horsetails, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns. Ferns fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Marattiidae 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. Description The Marattiaceae diverged from other ferns very early in their evolutionary history and are quite different from many plants familiar to people in temperate zones. Many of them have massive, fleshy rootstocks and the largest known fronds of any fern. The Marattiaceae is one of two groups of ferns traditionally known as eusporangiate ferns, meaning that the sporangium is formed from a group of cells as opposed to a leptosporangium in which there is a single initial cell. The large fronds characteristic of the group are most readily found in the genus ''Angiopteris'', native to Australasia, Madagascar and Oceania. These fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	Marattia Weinmanniifolia ''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. 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Gustav Kunze Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793, Leipzig – 30 April 1851, Leipzig) was a German professor of zoology, an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids. Kunze joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in 1817. He later became Zoology Professor at Leipzig University and in 1837 was appointed director of the Botanical Gardens in Leipzig. In 1851 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The plant genus ''Kunzea ''Kunzea'' is a genus of plants in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Australasia. They are shrubs, sometimes small trees and usually have small, crowded, rather aromatic leaves. The flowers are similar to those of plants in the genus '' Lep ...'' was named in his honour. Works * Beiträge zur Monographie der Rohrkäfer. ''Neue Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Halle'', 2 (4): 1-56. (1818). * Die Farrnkrauter in Kolorirten Abbildungen: Naturgetreu Erläutert und Beschrieben. 2 volumes (1847-1851). * Index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Marattia Laxa ''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. 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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