A new species Danaea (Marattiaceae) from the Atlantic forests of Brazil

MAARTEN J. M. CHRISTENHUSZ; ERTON M. ALMEIDA; LEONARDO P. FELIX

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.4

Issue: Vol. 356 No. 3: 15 June 2018

Type: Article

Published: 2018-06-15

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.4

Page range: 226–232

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**A new species Danaea (Marattiaceae) from the Atlantic forests of Brazil**

MAARTEN J. M. CHRISTENHUSZ⁺⁻
ERTON M. ALMEIDA⁺⁻
LEONARDO P. FELIX⁺⁻

Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia. Plant Gateway, 5 Baddeley Gardens, Bradford BD10 8JL, UK. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, UK.

Instituto Nacional do Semiárido – INSA, Av. Francisco Lopes de Almeida, S/N, Bairro Serrotão, Campina Grande, Paraiba, CEP: 58429-970, Brazil.

Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Campus II, 58397-000, Areia, Paraíba, Brazil.

Ferns Marattiaceae New Species Mata Atlantica Brazil Pteridophytes

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Abstract

With a long fossil history (Taylor, Taylor & Krings 2009), Marattiaceae are among the earliest lineages of vascular land plants and are an important link to understanding land plant evolution. The family currently has a pantropical distribution, but was more widely distributed in the past. In the neotropics the family is represented by the genera Marattia Swartz (1788: 128), Eupodium Smith (1841: 190) and Danaea Smith (1793: 420). An additional three genera are found in the paleotropics and in total the family has an estimated 135 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016).