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With a long fossil history (Taylor, Taylor & Krings 2009), Marattiaceae are among the earliest lineages of vascular land plants and are an important link to understanding land plant evolution.… Click to show full abstract
With a long fossil history (Taylor, Taylor & Krings 2009), Marattiaceae are among the earliest lineages of vascular land plants and are an important link to understanding land plant evolution. The family currently has a pantropical distribution, but was more widely distributed in the past. In the neotropics the family is represented by the genera Marattia Swartz (1788: 128), Eupodium Smith (1841: 190) and Danaea Smith (1793: 420). An additional three genera are found in the paleotropics and in total the family has an estimated 135 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016).
Journal Title: Phytotaxa
Year Published: 2018
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