Lonchitis

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Lonchitis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Lindsaeineae
Family: Lonchitidaceae
2006
Genus: Lonchitis
L. 1753[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms

Anisosorus Trevis. ex Maxon 1926[2]

Lonchitis is a neotropical genus of ferns. It is the sole genus in the family Lonchitidaceae. At one time Lonchitis was placed in the Dennstaedtiaceae, and then transferred to the Lindsaeaceae, before being placed in its own family.[3]

Species[]

  • L. 1753
  • Lonchitis repens L. 1753 (L.) C.Presl 1836 (Dennstaedtiaceae)
  • Lonchitis pedata L. 1763 Sw. 1801 (Pteridaceae)
  • Lonchitis bipinnata Forssk. 1775 (Bergius) Kunze 1836 (Aspleniaceae)
  • Lonchitis tenuifolia G. Forst. 1786 (G. Forst.) Bernh. 1805
  • Lonchitis caffrorum Bernh. 1801 (L.) Christenh. 2011 (Anemiaceae)
  • Lonchitis glabra Bory 1804 (Bory) R.M.Tryon 1962 (Dennstaedtiaceae)
  • Lonchitis hirsuta Bory 1804 (nom. illeg.)Lonchitis pubescens Willd. ex Kaulf. 1824
  • Lonchitis anthriscifolia Bory 1810 T. Moore 1861 (Dennstaedtiaceae)
  • Willd. ex Kaulf. 1824
    • L. pubescens var. nudiuscula Kunze 1844 (Hook.) R.M.Tryon 1962
    • L. pubescens var. glabra Baker 1867 (Bory) R.M.Tryon 1962
    • L. pubescens var. polypus (Baker) Tardieu 1958
  • Hook. 1851 (Hook.) R.M.Tryon 1962
  • Hook. 1851
  • Lonchitis tomentosa Fée 1857Lonchitis pubescens Willd. ex Kaulf. 1824
  • Lonchitis natalensis Hook 1858 (Hook.) R.M.Tryon 1962
  • Baker 1867
  • Lonchitis polypus Baker 1876L. pubescens var. polypus (Baker) Tardieu 1958
  • (Hook.) Mett. ex Kuhn 1879
  • Lonchitis natalensis Sandford 1894 (illeg.) (Hook.) R.M.Tryon 1962
  • C.Chr. 1911
  • Lonchitis pubescens A. Chev. 1914 (illeg.) (Hook.) R.M.Tryon 1962
  • Kümmerle 1915
  • Lonchitis javanica Tardieu 1951 (Hook.) R.M.Tryon 1962
  • Alston & Tardieu 1953
  • Tardieu 1955
  • Alston 1956
  • Alston 1956
  • Lonchitis gracilis Alston in Exell 1956 (Bory) R.M.Tryon 1962
  • (Bak. in Hook. & Baker ) Alston 1956
  • Tardieu 1957
  • Tardieu 1957

Homonyms[]

Lonchitis is also an illegitimate name for a genus of orchids (Lonchitis Bubani 1901), whose species include:

  • Lonchitis cordigera (L.) Bubani 1901Serapias cordigera L. 1763
  • Lonchitis oxyglottis (Willd.) Bubani 1901 Willd. 1805
  • Lonchitis longipetala (Moric.) Bubani 1901 L. 1820

References[]

  1. ^ Christenhusz et al. "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" Phytotaxa 19: 7-54. 18 Feb. 2011
  2. ^ Lonchitis Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 03 Feb 2012
  3. ^ Lehtonen et al.: Phylogenetics and classification of the pantropical fern family Lindsaeaceae[permanent dead link] in the Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 2010
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