Osmundaceae

Osmunda L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1063 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Azores, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Honduras, Hungary, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Kriti, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, Spain, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Austria, Madeira, New Zealand North, Sri Lanka

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Balkrishna, A., Joshi, B., Sribastava, A., Shankar, R. & Shukla, B.K. (2019). Classification of extant Pteridophytes: a new approach. Indian Fern Journal 36: 311-341.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Feb 20, 1932 Matthew, C.G. [s.n.] Japan K001057780 Type Yes
Feb 20, 1932 Matthew, C.G. [s.n.] Japan K001057779 Type Yes
Matthew, C.G. [s.n.] Japan K001090495 Unknown Type Material Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 52] K001109114 Unknown Type Material Yes
Parris, B.S.; Croxall, J.P. [6013] K000083605 No
Parris, B.S.; Croxall, J.P. [6013] K000083606 No

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0