Pteridium Gleditsch and Scopoli 1760 (fern)
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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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