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Issue: Vol. 351 No. 2: 1 June 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-06-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.351.2.9
Page range: 189–192
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

Typification of a Linnaean name in Gleicheniaceae (Polypodiopsida)

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Polypodiopsida Pteridophytes

Abstract

Gleicheniaceae are an ancient fern family with about 157 species and six genera (PPG I 2016). Although its taxonomy has been through several changes in the last years (Gonzales & Kessler 2011), a great gap remains in both taxonomy and nomenclature. For the Neotropics, there are several national or regional taxonomic treatments of the family (e.g. Proctor 1985, Lellinger 1989, Tryon & Stolze 1989, Moran 1995, Mickel & Smith 2004, Kessler & Smith 2018) and a revision of the Neotropical members of the genus Sticherus Presl (1836: 51) (Gonzales & Kessler 2011), but only few of them are dedicated to solve nomenclatural issues.