Dennstaedtia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Dennstaedtiaceae
- Genus
- Dennstaedtia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Dennstaedtia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dennstaedtia
Dennstaedtia is a mostly tropical and subtropical group of ferns described as a genus in 1801. Hayscented fern, or cup ferns, are common names for some species in this genus. It includes 58 species native to the tropical Americas, Madagascar, southern and eastern Asia, Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands.
Some characteristics of Dennstaedtia: "Fronds homomorphic; stipe grooved above, hairy when young... lamina triangular to oblong, many times pinnate, usually densely hairy, especially on rachis... Veins free, pinnately branching, veinlet not reaching margin, with hydathode at apex. Sori orbicular, marginal, terminal on each veinlet, separate..."
The temperate North-American hay-scented fern, Sitobolium punctilobulum, was formerly classified in Dennstaedtia and may have been its best-known member. It forms extensive clonal ground-cover colonies on level surfaces in the Appalachian area.
...Dennstaedtia in languages:
- Chinese
- 碗蕨屬
- Korean
- 잔고사리속
- Swedish
- höbräknar
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Dennstaedtia ampla
- Dennstaedtia anthriscifolia
- Dennstaedtia antillensis
- Dennstaedtia appendiculata
- Dennstaedtia arborescens
- Dennstaedtia arcuata
- Dennstaedtia articulata
- Dennstaedtia auriculata
- Dennstaedtia axilaris
- Dennstaedtia bipinnata
- Dennstaedtia canaliculata
- Dennstaedtia cicutaria
- Dennstaedtia cornuta
- Dennstaedtia davallioides
- Dennstaedtia dennstaedtioides
- Dennstaedtia dissecta
- Dennstaedtia distenta
- Dennstaedtia elmeri
- Dennstaedtia flaccida
- Dennstaedtia fusca
- Dennstaedtia glabrata
- Dennstaedtia glauca
- Dennstaedtia globulifera
- Dennstaedtia hirsuta
- Dennstaedtia hooveri
- Dennstaedtia inermis
- Dennstaedtia macgregorii
- Dennstaedtia macrosora
- Dennstaedtia madagascariensis
- Dennstaedtia magnifica
- Dennstaedtia mathewsii
- Dennstaedtia merrillii
- Dennstaedtia novoguineensis
- Dennstaedtia obtusifolia
- Dennstaedtia parksii
- Dennstaedtia paucirrhiza
- Dennstaedtia penicillifera
- Dennstaedtia philippinensis
- Dennstaedtia producta
- Dennstaedtia punctilobula
- Dennstaedtia rectangularis
- Dennstaedtia remota
- Dennstaedtia resinifera
- Dennstaedtia riparia
- Dennstaedtia rufidula
- Dennstaedtia samoensis
- Dennstaedtia scandens
- Dennstaedtia shawii
- Dennstaedtia spinosa
- Dennstaedtia sprucei
- Dennstaedtia sumatrana
- Dennstaedtia terminalis
- Dennstaedtia tryoniana
- Dennstaedtia vagans
- Dennstaedtia werckleana
- Dennstaedtia wercklei
- Dennstaedtia wilfordii
- Dennstaedtia williamsii
- Dennstaedtia zeylanica































































































































































