Woodwardia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Familia: Blechnaceae
Subfamilia: Woodwardioideae
Genus: Woodwardia
Species: W. auriculata – W. fimbriata – W. harlandii – W. intermedia – W. izuensis – W. japonica – W. kempii – W. magnifica – W. martinezii – W. orientalis – W. prolifera – W. radicans – W. semicordata – W. spinulosa – W. unigemmata

Source(s) of checklist:
Hassler, M. 2019. Woodwardia – World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World . In: Roskov Y., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J. & Penev L. (eds.) 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 06.

Fossil: †W. aurora – †W. clarus

Woodwardia Sm., Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. (Turin) 5: 411, pl. 9, fig. 3 (1793).

Type species: Lectotype: Woodwardia radicans (L.) Sm.
Lectotype designated by J. Smith, Hist. Fil. 310 (1875)
named for Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, (1745–1820), English botanist and phycologist

Heterotypic
- Lorinseria C.Presl, Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 6: 72 (1851), nom. illeg.
- Anchistea C.Presl, Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 6: 431 (1851).
- Chieniopteris Ching, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 9: 37 (1964).

Smith, J.E. 1793. Tentamen botanicum. De filicum generibus dorsiferarum. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 5: 401–422, pl. IX. BHL Reference page.

Pabst, M.B. 1968. The flora of the Chuckanut Formation: the Equisetales, Filicales, and Coniferales. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 76: i–v, 1–85. Reference page.
Pigg, K.B. & Rothwell, G.W. 2001. Anatomically preserved Woodwardia virginica (Blechnaceae) and a new Filicalean fern from the Middle Miocene Yakima Canyon Flora of central Washington, USA. American Journal of Botany 88(5): 777–787. DOI: 10.2307/2657030 Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Woodwardia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 Jan 16. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2023. Woodwardia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 16 Jan 2023. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2023. Woodwardia. Published online. Accessed: 16 Jan 2023. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2023. Woodwardia – World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World . In: Roskov Y., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J. & Penev L. (eds.) 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2023 Jan 16.