Lonchitis Explained

Lonchitis is a neotropical genus of ferns. It is the sole genus in the family Lonchitidaceae. At one time Lonchitis was placed in the Dennstaedtiaceae, and then transferred to the Lindsaeaceae, before being placed in its own family.^[1]

Phylogeny

Plants of the World Online as of recognizes the following species:^[2]

Phylogeny of Lonchitis^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.mnhn.fr/oseb/IMG/pdf/Lehtonen_et_al_2010_-_Phylogenetics_of_Lindsaeaceae.pdf Lehtonen et al.: Phylogenetics and classification of the pantropical fern family Lindsaeaceae
2. Web site: Lonchitis - Plants of the World Online . Plants of the World Online . 2023-01-05.
3. 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.
4. Web site: et al. . 2023 . Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL . FTOL v1.4.0 [GenBank release 253] . 8 March 2023.