Pronephrium

Pronephrium
Pronephrium hewittii in Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Thelypteridaceae
Subfamily: Thelypteridoideae
Genus: Pronephrium
C.Presl
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Dimorphopteris Tagawa & K.Iwats.
  • Haplodictyum C.Presl
  • Nannothelypteris Holttum
  • Pronephrium subg. Menisciopsis Holttum
  • Thelypteris subg. Dimorphopteris K.Iwats.
  • Thelypteris subg. Haplodictyum K.Iwats.

Pronephrium is a genus of ferns in the family Thelypteridaceae, subfamily Thelypteridoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Other sources sink Pronephrium into a very broadly defined genus Thelypteris. Some species were split off into the genera Abacopteris, Grypothrix and Menisciopsis in 2021 as a result of a phylogenetic study of the family Thelypteridaceae.

The genus was first described in 1851 by Carl Borivoj Presl.

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