Plenasium

Plenasium
Temporal range:
Plenasium vachellii (syn. Osmunda vachellii) in the Shing Mun Arboretum, Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Osmundales
Family: Osmundaceae
Genus: Plenasium
C.Presl
Type species
Plenasium banksiifolium
(Presl) Presl
Species

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Synonyms
  • Aurealcaulis Tidwell & Parker 1987
  • ×Osmunasium Liu, Schuettpelz & H.Schneid. 2020

Plenasium is a genus of ferns in the family Osmundaceae. It is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but kept within a more broadly circumscribed genus Osmunda by other sources. The genus is known from Early Cretaceous to present.