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Sadleria

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Sadleria
Sadleria cyatheoides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Blechnaceae
Subfamily: Blechnoideae
Genus: Sadleria
Kaulf.
Species

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Sadleria is a genus of six species of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, all endemic to Hawaii.[1]

Taxonomy

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Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss distinguished the genus in 1824 based on samples of S. cyatheoides acquired by Adelbert von Chamisso in 1821. Chamisso had been serving as the naturalist for a Russian scientific expedition led by Otto von Kotzebue aboard the vessel Rurick.[2] Kaulfuss named the genus after Joseph Sadler (1791–1849), a Hungarian naturalist who studied European ferns.[2]

Species

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As of December 2019, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted the following species:[3]

The Halemaʻumaʻu crater on Kīlauea is named after S. cyatheoides.

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Fern pages: Sadleria
  2. ^ a b Palmer (1997), p. 288.
  3. ^ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Sadleria", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, retrieved 2019-12-23

Bibliography

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  • Palmer, Daniel D. (1997), "A Revision of the Genus Sadleria (Blechnaceae)", Pacific Science, vol. 51, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 288–305.
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