INIBIOMA   20415
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN BIODIVERSIDAD Y MEDIOAMBIENTE
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Korallipteris, a new genus for Mesozoic Gleichenia-like fern fronds
Autor/es:
VERA, E.; PASSALIA, M.G.
Revista:
GEOBIOS
Editorial:
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
Referencias:
Lugar: Paris; Año: 2012 vol. 45 p. 421 - 428
ISSN:
0016-6995
Resumen:
A new form-genus, Corallipteris, is proposed to accomodate fertile or sterile fern fronds, possessing essentially Gleichenia-like morphology (e.g., pinnate fronds with small pecopteroid pinnules) but lacking diagnostic features that allow their classification at fern family level. The aim is thus to solve and old nomenclatural problem that involves the use of illegitimate genera, such as Gleichenites Goeppert and Microphyllopteris Arber. Several species of Gleichenites described from the Mesozoic of Argentina and Chile, and Microphyllopteris unisora Cantrill and Nagalingum from Antarctica are here reassigned to Corallipteris gen. nov. . The proposal of Nagalingum and Cantrill (2006) of preserving Gleicheniaceaephyllum Crabtree emend. Nagalingum and Cantrill for true Gleicheniaceous ferns, diagnosed by having an arrested laminar bud, is here accepted.