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Pleopeltis

{{Short description|Genus of ferns}}

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| image = GreenPolypods.jpg

| image_caption = Pleopeltis polypodioides growing on a tree branch

| taxon = Pleopeltis

| authority = Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

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{{Genus list

|Ampelopteris|Klotzsch

|Cheilogramma|Maxon

|Chilogramme|Blume

|Cuspidaria|Fée

|Dicranoglossum|J.Sm.

|Eschatogramme|Trevis.

|Heteropteris|Diels, nom. superfl.

|Heteropteris|Fée

|Lepicystis|(J.Sm.) J.Sm.

|Marginaria|Bory

|Marginariopsis|C.Chr.

|Microphlebodium|L.D.Gómez

|Neurodium|Fée

|Paltomium|C.Presl, nom. superfl.

|× Pleopodium|Schelpe & N.C.Anthony

|Pseudocolysis|L.D.Gómez

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Pleopeltis is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Polypodioideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). The genus widely distributed in tropical regions of the world, and also north into temperate regions in eastern North America and eastern Asia.Ferns of the World: [http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/fern/pleopeltis.htm Pleopeltis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017051300/http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/fern/pleopeltis.htm |date=2008-10-17 }}Flora of North America: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=126431 Pleopeltis]Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9571 Pleopeltis] Several species are known by the common name scaly polypody and resurrection fern.{{PLANTS|id=PLEOP|taxon=Pleopeltis|accessdate=8 October 2015}}

The genus is closely related to Polypodium. Many of the species have been or sometimes are still included in that genus. Further changes in the circumscription of the genus may occur as research continues.

They are epiphytic, epipetric (growing on rocks), or rarely terrestrial ferns, with a creeping, densely hairy or scaly rhizome bearing fronds at intervals along its length. The fronds are evergreen, persisting for 1–2 years, and are entire or deeply pinnatifid. The sori or groups of spore-cases (sporangia) are borne on the back of the frond.

Species

{{As of|2020|February}}, Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted the following species and hybrids:

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References

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{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Hassler |first1=Michael |last2=Schmitt |first2=Bernd |date=January 2020 |contribution=Pleopeltis |title=Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World |at=Version 8.20 |url=https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/ |access-date=2020-02-15 |name-list-style=amp }}

{{Citation |mode=cs1 |author=PPG I |year=2016 |title=A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=563–603 |doi=10.1111/jse.12229|s2cid=39980610 |doi-access=free }}

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Category:Epiphytes

Category:Fern genera

Category:Taxa named by Alexander von Humboldt

Category:Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland