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Oeosporangium
Oeosporangium is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the family Pteridaceae. The genus has not always been recognized. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) it was included in Allosorus (a genus since subsumed into Aleuritopteris). It was accepted by the Checklist of the Ferns and Lycophytes of the World as of January 2020. As circumscribed there, the genus is native to the Old World.
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Lip Fern
speciesOeosporangium acrosticum

Oeosporangium pteridioides
speciesOeosporangium pteridioides

Oeosporangium tinaei
speciesOeosporangium tinaei

Oeosporangium hispanicum
speciesOeosporangium hispanicum

Oeosporangium pulchellum
speciesOeosporangium pulchellum

Oeosporangium guanchicum
speciesOeosporangium guanchicum

Oeosporangium elegans
speciesOeosporangium elegans

Oeosporangium persicum
speciesOeosporangium persicum

Oeosporangium hancockii
speciesOeosporangium hancockii

Oeosporangium coriaceum
speciesOeosporangium coriaceum

Oeosporangium mairei
speciesOeosporangium mairei
Oeosporangium velutinum
speciesOeosporangium velutinum
Oeosporangium yunnanense
speciesOeosporangium yunnanense

Oeosporangium × marchettianum
hybridOeosporangium × marchettianum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 870436.