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Glaphyropteridopsis

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Glaphyropteridopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Thelypteridaceae
Subfamily: Thelypteridoideae
Genus: Glaphyropteridopsis
Ching; Acta phytotax. Sin. 8: 320 (1963)
Species

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Glaphyropteridopsis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Thelypteridoideae, family Thelypteridaceae, order Polypodiales. It is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I);[1] in other approaches, it may be merged with Thelypteris.[2]

Uses

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Glaphyropteridopsis erubescens is traditionally used in the production of kinema[3] and fermented cakes called marcha. It is applied to scorpion bites in Nigeria. It is mixed with rice water and drunk as a diarrhea remedy in India.[4]

Species

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According to World Ferns, which uses the PPG I framework:[5]

References

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  1. ^ PPG I (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229. S2CID 39980610.
  2. ^ "Glaphyropteridopsis erubescens (Wall. ex Hook.) Ching | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online.
  3. ^ Tamang, Jyoti Prakash (March 2015). "Naturally fermented ethnic soybean foods of India". Journal of Ethnic Foods. 2 (1): 8–17. doi:10.1016/j.jef.2015.02.003.
  4. ^ Kaur Aulakh, Mandeep; Saggoo, Manjit Inder Singh (16 April 2021). "An adverse effect of meiotic abnormalities on spore fitness in medicinal fern Glaphyropteridopsis erubescens (Wall. ex Hook.) Ching". Caryologia. International Journal of Cytology. Cytosystematics and Cytogenetics: Vol. 73 No. 3 (2020). doi:10.13128/caryologia-252.
  5. ^ "World Plants: Ferns and Lycophytes List". www.worldplants.de.