potato ferns
Marattia
Marattia is a small genus of primitive, large, fleshy eusporangiate ferns. It is the type genus of the family Marattiaceae, Order Marattiales and Class Marattiopsida. Formerly considered to be a much larger genus, genetic analysis has shown that Marattia in the broad sense was paraphyletic, and subsequently the genera Ptisana and Eupodium were split off. Except for one species in Hawaii, the genus is neotropical.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
pala
speciesMarattia douglasii
Marattia weinmanniifolia
speciesMarattia weinmanniifolia
Marattia laxa
speciesMarattia laxa
Marattia interposita
speciesMarattia interposita
Marattia alata
speciesMarattia alata
Marattia excavata
speciesMarattia excavata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 51828.