Anemia (plant) explained

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). Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Anemioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae, the family placement used in Plants of the World Online . 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.

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. Some sources do not separate the family Anemiaceae from Schizaeaceae.^[1]

Phylogeny of Anemia^{[2] [3]}

Unassigned species:

• subgenus Anemia
  • Anemia alfredi-rohrii Brade
  • Anemia antrorsa Mickel
  • Anemia ayacuchensis Mickel
  • Anemia barbatula Christ
  • Anemia bartlettii Mickel
  • Anemia blackii Brade
  • Anemia blechnoides Sm.
  • Anemia brandegeei Davenp.
  • Anemia candidoi Brade
  • Anemia cipoensis Sehnem
  • Anemia costata Sehnem
  • Anemia damazii Christ
  • Anemia dardanoi Brade
  • Anemia delicatula Mickel
  • Anemia denticulata Mickel
  • Anemia × didicusana L.D.Gómez
  • Anemia diversifolia Schrad.
  • Anemia donnell-smithii Maxon
  • Anemia duartei Brade
  • Anemia eriodes Mickel
  • Anemia × espiritosantensis Brade
  • Anemia familiaris Mickel
  • Anemia gomesii Christ
  • Anemia hatschbachii Sehnem
  • Anemia heterodoxa Christ
  • Anemia incisa Schrad.
  • Anemia intermedia Copel. ex M.E.Jones
  • Anemia laxa Lindm.
  • Anemia lindsaeoides Mickel
  • Anemia madagascariensis C.Chr.
  • Anemia mandiocana Raddi
  • Anemia × mexiae L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
  • Anemia mickelii L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
  • Anemia mirabilis Brade
  • Anemia munchii Christ
  • Anemia nana Baker
  • Anemia nigerica Alston
    • Anemia oblanceolata Mickel
  • Anemia obovata Maxon
  • Anemia ouropretana Christ
  • Anemia pallida Gardner
  • Anemia palmarum Lindm.
  • Anemia × paraphyllitidis Mickel
  • Anemia pastinacaria Moritz ex Prantl
  • Anemia perrieriana C.Chr.
  • Anemia pinnata Sehnem
  • Anemia pohliana Sturm
  • Anemia porrecta Mickel
  • Anemia × promiscua L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
  • Anemia pulchra Pohl
  • Anemia pumilio Mickel
  • Anemia rauhiana Mickel
  • Anemia × recondita Mickel
  • Anemia rigida Sehnem
  • Anemia schaeferi Sehnem
  • Anemia × semihirsuta Mickel
  • Anemia × semihispida L.S.Rabelo & Schwartsb.
  • Anemia sessilis (Jeanp.) C.Chr.
  • Anemia simplicior (Christ) Mickel
  • Anemia tenella (Cav.) Sw.
  • Anemia tripinnata Copel.
  • Anemia ulbrichtii Rosenst.
  • Anemia ulei Christ
  • Anemia × zanonii Mickel
• subgenus Anemirhiza
  • Anemia alternifolia Mickel
  • Anemia aurita Sw.
  • Anemia coriacea Gris.
  • Anemia cuneata Kuntze
  • Anemia speciosa C.Presl
  • Anemia voerkeliana Duek
• subgenus Mohria
  • Anemia lepigera (Baker) Christenh.
  • Anemia saxatilis (J.P.Roux) Christenh.

References

• • C.Michael Hogan. 2010. Fern. Encyclopedia of Earth. eds. Saikat Basu and C.Cleveland. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anemiaceae . Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2019-08-08 .
2. 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. 10.3389/fpls.2022.909768 . 36092417. 9449725. free.
3. Web site: et al. . 2023 . Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL . FTOL v1.5.0 [GenBank release 256] . 17 August 2023.