Tryonia is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae.[2] Species are native to the east of Brazil and to Uruguay.[1]

Tryonia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Pteridoideae
Genus: Tryonia
Schuettp., J.Prado & A.T.Cochran[1]
Type species
Tryonia myriophylla
(Swartz) Schuettpelz, Prado & Cochran
Species

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The genus was circumscribed by Eric Schuettpelz, Jefferson Prado and Alyssa T. Cochran in PhytoKeys vol.35 on page 35 in 2014.

The genus name of Tryonia is in honour of Alice F. Tryon (1920–2009), who was an American botanist (mainly pteridology). She examined the taxonomy of the fern genera Jamesonia.[3]

Species

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As of December 2019, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species:[1][4]

Phylogeny of Tryonia[5][6]

T. schwackeana (Christ) Schuettpelz, Prado & Cochran

T. areniticola (Schwartsburd & Labiak) Schuettpelz, Prado & Cochran

T. myriophylla (Swartz) Schuettpelz, Prado & Cochran

Other species:

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Tryonia Schuettp., J.Prado & A.T.Cochran", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-12-29
  2. ^ PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. ^ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Tryonia", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, retrieved 2019-12-29
  5. ^ Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.
  6. ^ "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.4.0 [GenBank release 253]. 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.