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Genus of ferns

Loxsoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Cyatheales
Family: Loxsomataceae
Genus: Loxsoma
R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Species: L. cunninghamii
Binomial name
Loxsoma cunninghamii
R.Br. ex A.Cunn.

Loxsoma is a terrestrial fern genus endemic to New Zealand with a single species, Loxsoma cunninghamii.

In the original publication, the name was spelled Loxoma but subsequently it was spelled Loxsoma, and this is now the conserved spelling.

References

  1. Faculty of Science - The University of Auckland. "Loxsomataceae (loxsoma fern)". Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
  2. A.H. Alfarhan; M. Sivadasan; J. Thomas (2009). "(1912) Proposal to conserve the name Loxsoma (Loxsomataceae) with that spelling". Taxon. 58 (4): 1370–1371. doi:10.1002/tax.584027.
Taxon identifiers
Loxsoma cunninghamii


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