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Taxon: Family Gleicheniaceae C.Presl (1825) - forking ferns (plant)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (R. Brown, 1810) C. Presl, 1825
Original name:  Brown, R. 1810.
Subsequent rank:  Presl, C. 1825.

Types

Automatically typified subtaxon of: Gleicheniales (Order) Link (1833)
Automatically typified subtaxon: Gleichenioideae (Subfamily)

Variants

Different rank: Gleicheniales (Order) Link (1833)

Synonyms

Junior subjective synonym: Stromatopteridaceae (Family) D.W. Bierhorst (1968) Ref: A.R. Smith et al., 2006: 710.
Including: Dicranopteridaceae (Family) Ching ex Doweld (2001) Ref: A.R. Smith et al., 2006: 710.
Including: †Oligocarpaceae (Family) A.V.Novikov & B. Barabasz-Krasny (2015), orth. inval. Ref: Новіков, А. & Барабаш-Красни, Б. / Novikoff, A. & Barabasz-Krasny, B., 2015: 49.
Including: †Oligocarpiaceae (Family) Doweld (2001) Ref: Новіков, А. & Барабаш-Красни, Б. / Novikoff, A. & Barabasz-Krasny, B., 2015: 49. [implicit]
Including: Stromatopteridaceae (Family) D.W. Bierhorst (1968) Ref: D.J. Mabberley, 2017: 391.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: forking ferns Ref: A.R. Smith et al., 2006: 710.
: gleichenioids Ref: A.R. Smith et al., 2006: 710.
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