Lygodium Swartz 1800 (climbing fern)

Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Polypodiidae

Parent taxon: Lygodiaceae according to PPG. I 2016

See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chauhan 1991, Gardner and Ettingshausen 1880, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Mabberley 2000 and MacGinitie 1941

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Lygodium binervatum Lygodium coloradensis Lygodium compactum Lygodium dentoni Lygodium dinmorphyllum Lygodium kaulfussi Lygodium marvinei Lygodium poolensis Lygodium prestwichii Lygodium trichomanoides

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (18 collections), India (6)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Panama (3), Poland (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (2)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Chile (1)

• Eocene of Australia (5), China (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (53: California, Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: Colorado, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Ecuador (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (1)

• Cretaceous of Senegal (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (3: Wyoming)

Total: 116 collections including 125 occurrences

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