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Amauropelta
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Amauropelta

Amauropelta is a monophyletic genus of fern, the largest within the Thelypteridaceae family, with 233 species (Almeida et al. 2016; Salino et al. 2015; Fawcett & Smith 2021). The center of diversity of the genus is in the Neotropics, but the earliest-divergent lineages are from the Old World.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Amauropelta subg. Nibaa

subgenusNibaa

Amauropelta

subgenusAmauropelta

Amauropelta subg. Venus

subgenusVenus

Amauropelta subg. Parathelypteris

subgenusParathelypteris

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 142189.