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Pellaea

Pellaea

Taxobox
name = "Pellaea"


image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Pellaea andromedifolia"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Pteridophyta
classis = Pteridopsida
ordo = Pteridales
familia = Pteridaceae
genus = "Pellaea"
genus_authority = Link
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

Members of the genus "Pellaea", sometimes called cliff brakes, are ferns primarily of rocky habitats, including moist rocky canyons, slopes, and bluffs. They are most abundant and diverse in the southwestern United States south into Andean South America, central Africa, and eastern Australia to New Zealand. They typically have creeping rhizomes and pinnately to bipinnately compound leaves lacking prominent scales or trichomes on the blades. Like most members of Pteridaceae, they have marginal sori protected by a false indusium formed from the reflexed leaf margin.

The distinction of "Pellaea" from the typically hairier or scalier "Cheilanthes" has proven difficult, with some members (e.g., the African "Pellaea viridis") being of uncertain affinity, listed by different authors in both genera. Furthermore, "Pellaea" contains a number of sections that may warrant generic status since they appear to represent convergence in phenotypes related to arid habitats rather than similarity due to common descent. These sections are:

* "Pellaea" section "Pellaea": includes most American members of the genus as well as a single African member ("Pellaea rufa");
* "Pellaea" section "Ormopteris": includes three or four South American species in or near Brazil;
* "Pellaea" section "Platyloma": includes the Australian and New Zealand species;
* "Pellaea" section "Holcochlaena": includes the African species.

Members of the genus are not generally used for any commercial purpose, although several species (most notably "Pellaea rotundifolia" and "Pellaea falcata" of section "Platyloma") are cultivated as indoor plants.

;Selected Species
* "Pellaea" section "Pellaea":
** "Pellaea atropurpurea"
** "Pellaea glabella"
** "Pellaea wrightiana"
** "Pellaea truncata"
** "Pellaea ovata"
* "Pellaea" section "Ormopteris":
** "Pellaea cymbiformis"
* "Pellaea" section "Platyloma":
** "Pellaea rotundifolia"
** "Pellaea falcata"
** "Pellaea calidirupium"
* "Pellaea" section "Holcochlaena":
** "Pellaea calomelanos"
** "Pellaea dura"
** "Pellaea viridis"
** "Pellaea boivinii"


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