Christiopteris
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), India to Indochina present
India to Indochina; in Malesia: Philippines.
Taxonomy
A small genus of somewhat uncertain position. After its foundation by Copeland (1905), several trilobed species have been variously in- and excluded. The two species that are at the moment still included have no evident relations to other genera of Polypodiaceae, but the possibility cannot be excluded that their joint inclusion in this genus is based on convergences.
Citation
Copel. 1917 – In: Philipp. J. Sc. Bot. p 311
Bower 1928 – In: The Ferns. p 213
Holttum 1954 – In: Revis. Fl. Malaya. p 210
Copel. 1947: Gen. Fil. p 178
Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philipp. p 456
Hennipman & Hetterscheid 1984 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 3
Hennipman et al. 1990 – In: Kramer & Green, Fam. & Genera Vasc. Pl. 1. p 217