Llavea
| Llavea cordifolia | |
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| Genus: | Llavea |
| Species: | L. cordifolia
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| Llavea cordifolia | |
Llavea cordifolia is the sole species of its genus. It is often cultivated as an ornamental foliage plant.
Recent cladistic studies have shown that this genus forms a natural group with Cryptogramma and Coniogramme, a group that is sister to all the other pteridoid ferns.[2][3]
References
- ^ a b c Christenhusz et al., 2011 Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Herald Scheider: "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns," Phytotaxa, 19: 7-54 (18 Feb. 2011)
- ^ Schuettpelz et al. 2007 Eric Schuettpelz, Harald Schneider, Layne Huiet, Michael D. Windham, Kathleen M. Pryer: "A molecular phylogeny of the fern family Pteridaceae: Assessing overall relationships and the affinities of previously unsampled genera." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44 (2007) 1172–1185
- ^ Schuettpelz & Pryer, 2008] "Fern pylogeny" in Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes, ed. Tom A. Ranker and Christopher H. Haufler. Cambridge University Press 2008
External links
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