Anemia (plant)
Anemia is a genus of ferns. It is the only genus in the family Anemiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Anemioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae,[2] the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019.[3] Its species are sometimes called flowering ferns, but this term is more commonly applied to ferns of the genus Osmunda. Fronds are dimorphic; in fertile fronds, the two lowermost pinnae are highly modified to bear the sporangia.
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Mexican flowering fern (A. mexicana) | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Schizaeales |
Family: | Anemiaceae Link |
Genus: | Anemia Sw. |
Type species | |
Anemia phyllitidis (L.) Sw. | |
Species | |
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Ferns in this genus have chromosome numbers based on x=38: n=38, 76, 114.
Taxonomy
The genus Anemia was first described by the Swedish botanist Olof Swartz in 1806. The family Anemiaceae was created by Johann Link in 1841. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Anemia includes Mohria and Colina and is the only genus in the family.[1] Some sources do not separate the family Anemiaceae from Schizaeaceae.[4]
Species
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As of November 2019, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[3]
- subgenus Anemia
- Anemia affinis Baker
- Anemia alfredi-rohrii Brade
- Anemia andersonii Mickel & Labiak
- Anemia angolensis Alston
- Anemia antrorsa Mickel
- Anemia aspera (Fée) Baker
- Anemia australis (Mickel) M.Kessler & A.R.Sm.
- Anemia ayacuchensis Mickel
- Anemia barbatula Christ
- Anemia bartlettii Mickel
- Anemia blackii Brade
- Anemia blechnoides Sm.
- Anemia brandegeei Davenp.
- Anemia buniifolia (Gardner) T.Moore
- Anemia candidoi Brade
- Anemia cipoensis Sehnem
- Anemia collina Raddi
- Anemia costata Sehnem
- Anemia damazii Christ
- Anemia dardanoi Brade
- Anemia delicatula Mickel
- Anemia dentata Gardner
- Anemia denticulata Mickel
- Anemia × didicusana L.D.Gómez
- Anemia diversifolia Schrad.
- Anemia donnell-smithii Maxon
- Anemia dregeana Kunze
- Anemia duartei Brade
- Anemia elaphoglossoides Mickel
- Anemia elegans (Gardner) C.Presl
- Anemia eriodes Mickel
- Anemia × espiritosantensis Brade
- Anemia eximia Taub.
- Anemia familiaris Mickel
- Anemia ferruginea Kunth
- Anemia flexuosa (Sav.) Sw.
- Anemia gardneri Hook.
- Anemia glareosa Gardner
- Anemia gomesii Christ
- Anemia guatemalensis Maxon
- Anemia hatschbachii Sehnem
- Anemia herzogii Rosenst.
- Anemia heterodoxa Christ
- Anemia hirsuta (L.) Sw. – hairy flowering fern
- Anemia hirta (L.) Sw. – streambank flowering fern
- Anemia imbricata Sturm
- Anemia incisa Schrad.
- Anemia intermedia Copel. ex M.E.Jones
- Anemia irwinii Mickel
- Anemia jaliscana Maxon
- Anemia karwinskyana (C.Presl) Prantl
- Anemia labiakii Mickel
- Anemia lanata Mickel
- Anemia lancea Christ
- Anemia lanipes C.Chr.
- Anemia lanuginosa Bongard
- Anemia laxa Lindm.
- Anemia lindsaeoides Mickel
- Anemia luetzelburgii Rosenst.
- Anemia madagascariensis C.Chr.
- Anemia mandiocana Raddi
- Anemia marginata Mickel
- Anemia × mexiae L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
- Anemia mickelii L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
- Anemia millefolia Gardner
- Anemia mirabilis Brade
- Anemia multiplex Mickel
- Anemia munchii Christ
- Anemia mynsseniana Mickel
- Anemia myriophylla Christ
- Anemia nana Baker
- Anemia nervosa Pohl
- Anemia nicaraguensis Mickel
- Anemia nigerica Alston
- Anemia oblanceolata Mickel
- Anemia oblongifolia (Cav.) Sw.
- Anemia obovata Maxon
- Anemia organensis Rosenst.
- Anemia ouropretana Christ
- Anemia pallida Gardner
- Anemia palmarum Lindm.
- Anemia × paraphyllitidis Mickel
- Anemia pastinacaria Moritz ex Prantl
- Anemia patens Mickel & Labiak
- Anemia perrieriana C.Chr.
- Anemia phyllitidis (L.) Sw.
- Anemia pinnata Sehnem
- Anemia pohliana Sturm
- Anemia porrecta Mickel
- Anemia × promiscua L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
- Anemia pubescens Mickel & Labiak
- Anemia pulchra Pohl
- Anemia pumilio Mickel
- Anemia pyrenaea Taub.
- Anemia raddiana Link
- Anemia rauhiana Mickel
- Anemia × recondita Mickel
- Anemia repens Raddi
- Anemia retroflexa Brade
- Anemia rigida Sehnem
- Anemia rosulata Mickel
- Anemia rotundifolia Schrad.
- Anemia rutifolia Mart.
- Anemia salvadorensis Mickel & Seiler
- Anemia schaeferi Sehnem
- Anemia schimperiana C.Presl
- Anemia × semihirsuta Mickel
- Anemia × semihispida L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
- Anemia sertaneja Mickel & Labiak
- Anemia sessilis (Jeanp.) C.Chr.
- Anemia simii Tardieu
- Anemia simplicior (Christ) Mickel
- Anemia smithii Brade
- Anemia spicantoides Mabb.
- Anemia tenella (Cav.) Sw.
- Anemia tenera Pohl
- Anemia tomentosa (Sav.) Sw.
- Anemia trichorhiza Gardner
- Anemia tripinnata Copel.
- Anemia ulbrichtii Rosenst.
- Anemia ulei Christ
- Anemia underwoodiana Maxon
- Anemia villosa Willd.
- Anemia warmingii Prantl
- Anemia wettsteinii Christ
- Anemia × zanonii Mickel
- subgenus Anemirhiza
- Anemia abbottii Maxon
- Anemia adiantifolia (L.) Sw. – pine Fern
- Anemia alternifolia Mickel
- Anemia aurita Sw.
- Anemia cicutaria Kuntze – hemlock fern
- Anemia colimensis Mickel
- Anemia coriacea Gris.
- Anemia cuneata Kuntze
- Anemia mexicana Klotzsch – Mexican flowering fern
- Anemia portoricensis Maxon – Puerto Rican flowering fern
- Anemia speciosa C.Presl
- Anemia voerkeliana Duek
- Anemia wrightii Baker – Wright's flowering fern
- subgenus Mohria
- Anemia caffrorum (L.) Christenh.
- Anemia lepigera (Baker) Christenh.
- Anemia marginalis (Sav.) Christenh.
- Anemia mohriana Christenh.
- Anemia nudiuscula (J.P.Roux) Christenh.
- Anemia saxatilis (J.P.Roux) Christenh.
- Anemia vestita (Baker) Christenh.
References
- 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.
- Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. & Chase, Mark W. (2014). "Trends and concepts in fern classification". Annals of Botany. 113 (9): 571–594. doi:10.1093/aob/mct299. PMC 3936591. PMID 24532607.
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- "Anemiaceae". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
- 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.
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- C.Michael Hogan. 2010. Fern. Encyclopedia of Earth. eds. Saikat Basu and C.Cleveland. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.

