Woodsia

Woodsia
	Woodsia alpina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Aspleniineae
Family:	Woodsiaceae; Herter
Genus:	; R.Br.
Type species
	Woodsia ilvensis; (von Linné) Brown
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Eriosoriopsis (Kitagawa 1935) Ching & Wu 1991; Trichocyclus Dulac 1867 non N.E. Br. 1922;

Woodsia is a genus of ferns in the family Woodsiaceae. Species of Woodsia are commonly known as cliff ferns.^[4]^: 224 In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae.^[1] In 2020, Physematium was split off from Woodsia on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence.^[5] As of June 2023, Plants of the World Online continued to treat Physematium as a synonym of Woodsia.^[6]

Phylogeny

There are about 25–30 species of the genus Woodsia. As of June 2023, World Ferns hosted at World Plants accepted the following species:^[7]

Phylogeny from Fern Tree of Life^[8]^[9]

Other species include:

Woodsia

(Eriosorus)

W. lanosa Hook.

W. okamotoi Tagawa

	W. cycloloba Hand.-Mazz.

	W. kungiana Li Bing Zhang, N.T.Lu & X.F.Gao

(Woodsia)

section

	W. guizhouensis P.S.Wang, Q.Luo & Li Bing Zhang

	W. rosthorniana Diels

Eriosoriopsis

section

Woodsia glabella R.Br. (smooth cliff fern)

	Woodsia alpina (Bolton) Gray (alpine woodsia)

	W. shensiensis Ching

Alpinae

section

W. andersonii (Bedd.) Christ

Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R.Br. (oblong woodsia, rusty cliff fern)

	W. gorovoii Krestsch. & Shmakov

	W. macrochlaena Mett. ex Kuhn

Woodsia

section

W. oblonga Ching & S.H.Wu

W. subcordata Turcz.

	W. polystichoides D.C.Eaton

	W. subintermedia Tzvelev

Subcordatae

W. asiatica Kiselev & Shmakov
W. calcarea (Fomin) Shmakov
W. cinnamomea Christ
W. hancockii Baker
W. macrospora C.Chr. & Maxon
W. nikkoensis H.Ogura & Nakaike
W. pilosa Ching
†W. pseudomanchuriensis Akhmetiev
W. pseudopolystichoides (Fomin) Kiselev & Shmakov
W. pulchella Bertol.
W. sinica Ching
W. taigischensis (Stepanov) Kuznetsov
W. taishanensis F.Z.Li & C.K.Ni

Some hybrids are also known:^[7]

Woodsia × gracilis (G.Lawson) Butters = W. alpina × W. ilvensis
Woodsia × tryonis B.Boivin = W. ilvensis × W. glabella

When the genus Physematium is accepted, × Woodsimatium abbeae is a hybrid between Woodsia ilvensis and Physematium scopulinum.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c PPG I (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229. S2CID 39980610.
^ "Woodsia R.Br". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
^ illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
^ Broughton Cobb; Elizabeth Farnsworth; Cheryl Lowe (2005). A Field Guide to Ferns and their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series (2nd ed.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0618394060.
^ Lu, N.T.; Zhou, X.-M.; Zhang, L.; Knapp, R.; Li, C.-X.; Fan, X.-P.; Zhou, L.; Wei, H.-J.; Lu, J.-M., Xu, B.; Peng, Y.-L.; Gao, X.-F. & Zhang, L.-B. (2020), "A global plastid phylogeny of the cliff fern family Woodsiaceae and a two-genus classification of Woodsiaceae with the description of ×Woodsimatium nothogen. nov.", Taxon, 68 (6): 1149–1172, doi:10.1002/tax.12180, S2CID 213706008{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Physematium Kaulf.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2023-06-13
^ ^a ^b Hassler, Michael. "Woodsia". World Ferns. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
^ Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.
^ "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.7.0 (GenBank release 261). 2024. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
^ Hassler, Michael. "× Woodsimatium". World Ferns. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

[PPGI-1] PPG I (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229. S2CID 39980610.

[POWO_30003486-2-2] "Woodsia R.Br". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

[3] ustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany

[Cobb-4] Broughton Cobb; Elizabeth Farnsworth; Cheryl Lowe (2005). A Field Guide to Ferns and their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series (2nd ed.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0618394060.

[LuZhouZhanKnap20-5] Lu, N.T.; Zhou, X.-M.; Zhang, L.; Knapp, R.; Li, C.-X.; Fan, X.-P.; Zhou, L.; Wei, H.-J.; Lu, J.-M., Xu, B.; Peng, Y.-L.; Gao, X.-F. & Zhang, L.-B. (2020), "A global plastid phylogeny of the cliff fern family Woodsiaceae and a two-genus classification of Woodsiaceae with the description of ×Woodsimatium nothogen. nov.", Taxon, 68 (6): 1149–1172, doi:10.1002/tax.12180, S2CID 213706008{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[POWO_17176940-1-6] "Physematium Kaulf.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2023-06-13

[WF_Woodsia-7] Hassler, Michael. "Woodsia". World Ferns. Retrieved 13 June 2023.

[8] Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.

[9] "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.7.0 (GenBank release 261). 2024. Retrieved 1 May 2025.

[WF_Woodsimatium-10] Hassler, Michael. "× Woodsimatium". World Ferns. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

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