Athyrium
{{Short description|Genus of ferns}}
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Athyrium (lady-fern) is a genus of about 180 species of terrestrial ferns, with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is placed in the family Athyriaceae, in the order Polypodiales.
Its genus name is from Greek a- ('without') and Latinized Greek thyreos ('shield'), describing its inconspicuous indusium (sorus' covering).{{cite book|author1=Lloyd H. Snyder Jr.|author2=James G. Bruce|title=Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=n1iTLCVYcksC|page=114}}|access-date=26 September 2013|date=1 October 1986|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2385-5|page=114}}
The common name "lady fern" refers in particular to the common lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina.Entry "lady fern", New Oxford American Dictionary 3rd edition (2010) by Oxford University Press, Inc.
Athyrium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the small angle shades and Sthenopis auratus.
Species
There are about 180, including:
References
{{Reflist|refs=
|author1=Alan R. Smith
|author2=Kathleen M. Pryer
|author3=Eric Schuettpelz
|author4=Petra Korall
|author5=Harald Schneider
|author6=Paul G. Wolf
|year=2006
|title=A classification for extant ferns
|journal=Taxon
|volume=55
|issue=3
|pages=705–731
|url=http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf
|doi=10.2307/25065646
|jstor=25065646
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226232147/http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf
|archive-date=2008-02-26
}}
|author=Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider
|year=2011
|title=A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns
|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=19|pages=7–54
|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2
|url=http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2011/f/pt00019p054.pdf}}}}
External links
{{Commons category}}
- [http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=3&start_taxon_id=103074 Flora of China]
- [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Athyrium+&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= Flora Europaea]
- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=103074 Flora of North America]
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