Pronephrium
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| Pronephrium | |
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| Pronephrium hewittii in Malaysia | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
| Family: | Thelypteridaceae |
| Subfamily: | Thelypteridoideae |
| Genus: | Pronephrium C.Presl[1] |
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Pronephrium is a genus of ferns in the family Thelypteridaceae, subfamily Thelypteridoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] Other sources sink Pronephrium into a very broadly defined genus Thelypteris.[3] Some species were split off into the genera Abacopteris, Grypothrix and Menisciopsis in 2021 as a result of a phylogenetic study of the family Thelypteridaceae.[4][5]
The genus was first described in 1851 by Carl Borivoj Presl.[6][7]