Pteridium Gleditsch and Scopoli 1760 (fern)

Polypodiopsida - Polypodiales - Polypodiidae

Parent taxon: Dennstaedtiaceae according to PPG. I 2016

See also Chauhan 1991 and Kershaw et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Dennastra, Dennstaedtia, Histiopteris, Hypolepis, Microlepia, Microlepiopsis

Subtaxa: none

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (31 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (7), United States (2: Michigan)

• Miocene of Switzerland (3), United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence

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