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Issue: Vol. 218 No. 2: 2 July 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-07-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.218.2.13
Page range: 197–199
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

Notes on the fern flora of Fiji: Synonymization of Ctenitis minima and Dryopteris waiwaiensis with Tectaria dissecta (Tectariaceae) and Deparia boryana (Athyriaceae), respectively

Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, and International Cultivar Registration Center for Osmanthus, Department of Bonaty, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, P. R. China
Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A. and Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China.
Ctenitis minima Dryopteris waiwaiensis Tectaria dissecta Tectariaceae Deparia boryana Athyriaceae Pteridophytes Fiji

Abstract

Ctenitis C. Christensen (1938: 544) is a fern genus in Dryopteridaceae (Smith et al. 2006, Zhang et al. 2013), containing about 150 species distributed in the New and Old World wet tropics (Mickel & Smith, 2004). While working on a monograph of Ctenitis of the Old World, we found two new synonyms for the fern flora of Fiji which do not belong to Ctenitis and have never been correctly treated before: Ctenitis minima Brownlie (1977: 303), a heterotypic synonym of Tectaria dissecta (G. Forst.) Lellinger (1968: 156) (Tectariaceae), and Ctenitis waiwaiensis (C. Chr.) Brownlie (1977: 303) [basionym: Dryopteris waiwaiensis Christensen (1905: 300)], a heterotypic synonym of Deparia boryana (Willdenow) M. Kato (1977: 36) (Athyriaceae).