Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200
Parent taxon: Osmundaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Chandler 1963, Chauhan 1991, Gardner and Ettingshausen 1880, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1899, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000 and McIver and Basinger 1993
Sister taxa: Acrostichites, Anomorrhoea, Baculatisporites, Bathypteris, Chasmatopteris, Chinlea, Cladotheca, Claytosmunda, Iegosigopteris, Itopsidema, Mesolonchopteris, Millerocaulis, Osmundacaulis, Osmundasporites, Osmundites, Osmundopsis, Palaeosmunda, Petcheropteris, Phyllopteroides, Rotverrusporites, Rugulatisporites, Stellatheca, Thamnopteris, Todea, Todeopsis, Todisporangiaites, Todites, Zalesskya
Subtaxa: Osmunda adiantifolia Osmunda arctica Osmunda bipinnata Osmunda cervina Osmunda cinnamomea Osmunda claytoniana Osmunda delawarensis Osmunda dicksonioides Osmunda doroschkiana Osmunda filiculafolia Osmunda greenlandica Osmunda heerii Osmunda hirsuta Osmunda hirta Osmunda hollicki Osmunda lignita Osmunda lunaria Osmunda macrophylla Osmunda montanensis Osmunda novaecaesarae Osmunda obergiana Osmunda occidentale Osmunda phyllitidis Osmunda regalis Osmunda spectabilis Osmunda sphenopteroides Osmunda spicant Osmunda struthiopteris Osmunda verticillata Osmunda virginiana Osmunda zeylanica
Type: Osmunda regalis
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (2 collections), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Germany (2), Portugal (10)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (7: Massachusetts, Montana)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Idaho)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (3), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho)
• Paleocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (1), Mexico (1), United States (7: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 67 collections including 69 occurrences
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