Culcita is a genus of ferns, native to the Americas, Macaronesia and Iberian Peninsula. It is the only genus in the family Culcitaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Culcitoideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae,[2] the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019[update].[3]
| Culcita | |
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| Culcita macrocarpa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Cyatheales |
| Family: | Culcitaceae Pic.Serm. |
| Genus: | Culcita C.Presl |
| Type species | |
| Culcita macrocarpa | |
| Species | |
Species
editOnly two species are known:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Culcita coniifolia (Hook.) Maxon | Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela |
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Culcita macrocarpa C. Presl | Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, Portugal, Spain |
References
edit- ^ PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
- ^ Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. & Chase, Mark W. (2014), "Trends and concepts in fern classification", Annals of Botany, 113 (9): 571–594, doi:10.1093/aob/mct299, PMC 3936591, PMID 24532607
- ^ "Culcita C.Presl", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-11-24
- ^ "Culcita C. Presl". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 8 December 2020.[permanent dead link]
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