Culcita (plant)
Genus of ferns
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Culcita is a genus of ferns, native to the Americas, Macaronesia and Iberian Peninsula. It is the only genus in the family Culcitaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Culcitoideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae,[2] the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019[update].[3]
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| Culcita | |
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| Culcita macrocarpa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Cyatheales |
| Family: | Culcitaceae Pic.Serm. |
| Genus: | Culcita C.Presl |
| Type species | |
| Culcita macrocarpa | |
| Species | |
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Species
Only two species are known:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|
 | Culcita coniifolia (Hook.) Maxon | Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela |
.jpg) | Culcita macrocarpa C. Presl | Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, Portugal, Spain |
