The Cyatheaceae are a family of ferns, the scaly tree ferns, one of eight families in the order Cyatheales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group ...
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The Cyatheaceae are a family of ferns, the scaly tree ferns, one of eight families in the order Cyatheales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cyatheaceae
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Cyatheales
Family: Cyatheaceae; Kaulf.
Clade: Tracheophytes
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Family Cyatheaceae (scaly tree ferns) Stems erect and mostly trunklike (to 25 metres, [82 feet]) or less commonly creeping or sprawling to short-ascending, ...
Included in the Cyatheaceae are 4–6 extant genera and more than 650 species of tree ferns in 5 major clades.
May 13, 2013 · Commonly known as the scaly tree ferns, Cyatheaceae are a clade of ca. 600 plant species within a group of plants known as the monilophytes ...
Helpdesk · Kingdom. Plantae · Phylum. Tracheophyta · Class. Polypodiopsida · Order. Cyatheales. Family.
May 1, 2007 · Here we investigate the phylogenetic relationships of scaly tree ferns based on DNA sequence data from five plastid regions.
Scaly tree ferns, Cyatheaceae, are a well-supported group of mostly tree-forming ferns found throughout the tropics, the subtropics and the south-temperate zone ...
Cyatheaceae Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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The meaning of CYATHEACEAE is a family of tropical tree ferns having the sporangia crowded, stalked, and either naked or more often with a cup-shaped ...
Plants terrestrial, large to very large, less often medium-sized, with short to usually long, erect, slender to robust, apically scaly stem. Stems with ...
We focused here on the scaly tree fern family Cyatheaceae, an iconic plant group of humid forests comprising about 660 known species distributed worldwide in ...