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Botrychium
| Description | Botrychium is a genus of ferns, seedless vascular plants in the family Ophioglossaceae. Botrychium species are known as moonworts. They are small, with fleshy roots, and reproduce by spores shed into the air. One part of the leaf, the trophophore, is sterile and fernlike; the other, the sporophore, is fertile and carries the clusters of sporangia or spore cases. Some species only occasionally emerge above ground and gain most of their nourishment from an association with mycorrhizal fungi. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botrychium, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source Data |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Ophioglossales : Ophioglossaceae : Botrychium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Pteridophyta : Pteridopsida : Ophioglossaceae : Botrychium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Botrychium Sw. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 66.0 - 56.0 Ma Paleocene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | A. P. Kershaw. 1976. A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen diagram from Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Queensland, Australia. New Phytologist 77:469-498 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Grape-fern, Grapefern, Moonwort, Botryche, Botryque, Låsbräknar, Mondraute | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botrychium |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Botrychium acuminatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium alaskense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium ascendens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium boreale species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium campestre species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium crenulatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium dusenii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium echo species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium gallicomontanum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium hesperium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium lanceolatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium lineare species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium longistipitatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium lunaria species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium matricariaefolium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium matricariifolium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium michiganense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium minganense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium montanum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium mormo species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium neolunaria species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium nordicum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium pallidum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium paradoxum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium pedunculosum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium pinnatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium pseudopinnatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium pumicola species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium robustum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium rutoefolium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium simplex species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium socorrense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium spathulatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium tolucaense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium tunux species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium watertonense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Botrychium yaaxudakeit species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Osmundopteris Small (Milde) | GBIF | genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Ophioglossales : Ophioglossaceae : Osmundopteris |
| Lunularia Batsch | GBIF | genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Ophioglossales : Ophioglossaceae : Lunularia |
| Lunaria Hill | GBIF | genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Ophioglossales : Ophioglossaceae : Lunaria |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1800 | Botrychium Swartz |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
