Plagiogyria

Plagiogyria is a genus of ferns, the only genus in family Plagiogyriaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).^[1] Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Plagiogyrioideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae,^[2] the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019^[update].^[3]

Plagiogyria
Plagiogyria egenolfioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Cyatheales
Family:	Plagiogyriaceae Bower
Genus:	Plagiogyria (Kunze) Mett.
Type species
Plagiogyria euphlebia (Kunze) Mettenius
Species
See text
Synonyms
Polygramma Presl

Ferns of this genus present two kind of fronds, the fertile ones longer than the sterile. These ferns are found on forest soils in mountainous areas of tropical and subtropical regions. Most are native to Asia; one is found in the Americas.^[4]

Phylogeny

As of November 2019^[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species.^[3]

Phylogeny of Plagiogyria[5][6]	Other species include:
Plagiogyria section P. pectinata (Liebm.) Lellinger P. matsumurana Makino P. stenoptera (Hance) Diels Carinatae section P. adnata (Blume) Bedd. P. egenolfioides (Baker) Copel. P. glauca (Blume) Mett. P. euphlebia (Kunze) Mett. P. koidzumii Tagawa P. japonica Nakai P. ×wakabae Kurata ex Nakaike Plagiogyria	P. assurgens Christ P. falcata Copel. P. × neointermedia Nakaike P. pycnophylla (Kunze) Mett. P. × sessilifolia Nakaike