Pentarhizidium orientale

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Pentarhizidium orientale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Aspleniineae
Family:	Onocleaceae
Genus:	Pentarhizidium
Species:	P. orientale
Binomial name
Pentarhizidium orientale (Hook.) Hayata
Synonyms
Matteuccia orientalis (Hook.) Trevis. Onoclea orientalis (Hook.) Hook. Pentarhizidium orientale (Hook.) Hayata Pteretis orientalis Ching Struthiopteris orientalis Hook.

Pentarhizidium orientalis, the Oriental ostrich fern, is a fern native to China, Japan, and the Himalayas. It grows to about 0.6 m (2 ft) in height by 0.6 m (2 ft) wide. It was formerly included in the genus Matteuccia, but phylogenetic studies mandated that it and be moved to a new genus.

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• Media related to Pentarhizidium orientale at Wikimedia Commons
• The Plant List entry
• Plants for a Future entry
• "Pentarhizidium orientale". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
• Efloras entry
• Robert M. Lloyd, Facultative Apomixis and Polyploidy in Matteuccia orientalis, American Fern Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr.–Jun. 1973), pp. 43–48. Published by the American Fern Society.