Pentarhizidium is a genus of two Asian fern species. These species have formerly been included in Matteuccia or Onoclea.[1] Recent genetic analysis has determined that these two species form a discrete clade that is basal to the rest of this fern group, and so have been located in their own genus. P. orientale is sometimes grown as a garden plant.

Pentarhizidium
Pentarhizidium orientale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Onocleaceae
Genus: Pentarhizidium
Hayata 1927
Species
  • Pentarhizidium orientale
  • Pentarhizidium intermedium

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c GJ Gastony and MC Ungerer (1997), "Molecular systematics and a revised taxonomy of the onocleoid ferns (Dryopteridaceae: Onocleeae)", American Journal of Botany, 84 (6): 840–849, doi:10.2307/2445820, JSTOR 2445820, PMID 21708636