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Phegopteris

Beech Fern Genus

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pterophyta
Class:	Pteridpsida[?]
Order:	Athyriales
Family:	Thelypteridaceae
Genus:	Phegopteris

Species

  Phegopteris connectilis
  Phegopteris hexagonoptera
  Phegopteris decursive-pinnata
  Phegopteris aurita
  Phegopteris torresiana

Phegopteris as a genus traditionally includes only the first three species listed, known collectively as the beech ferns. However, recent genetic evidence clearly shows that the genera Macrothelypteris and Pseudophegopteris, other segregates from the genus Thelypteris[?], are closely related to Phegopteris in a closely-related clade, and so are here included as Phegopteris species.

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