Megalastrum oppositum and Ctenitis canacae (Dryopteridaceae): A new combination and a new synonym, respectively, for Mascarene fern flora

Yi-Fan Duan; Libing Zhang

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.159.4.7

Issue: Vol. 159 No. 4: 18 February 2014

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2014-02-18

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.159.4.7

Page range: 295–297

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Megalastrum oppositum and Ctenitis canacae (Dryopteridaceae): A new combination and a new synonym, respectively, for Mascarene fern flora

Yi-Fan Duan⁺⁻
Libing Zhang⁺⁻

International Cultivar Registration Center for Osmanthus, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, P. R. China.

Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China and Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A.

Macarene fern flora Megalastrum oppositum Ctenitis canacae new combination typificaion new synonym

Abstract

We synonymized Ctenitis canacae with C. opposita (basionym: Aspidium oppositum) and proposed a new combination, Megalastrum oppositum. We also lectotypified Aspidium oppositum.