Cosentinia

Cosentinia
In Morocco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Family:	Pteridaceae
Subfamily:	Pteridoideae
Genus:	Cosentinia Tod.[1]
Species:	C. vellea
Binomial name
Cosentinia vellea (Aiton) Tod.[1]
Subspecies
See text.

Cosentinia is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae with a single species Cosentinia vellea.^[1] Its native distribution ranges from the Canary Islands through Europe, northern Africa and Western Asia to the west Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent.

Subspecies

As of December 2019^[update], the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized two subspecies:^[2]

• Cosentinia vellea subsp. bivalens (Reichstein) Rivas Mart. & Salvo
• Cosentinia vellea subsp. ×rivas-martinezii Amp.Castillo & Salvo
• Cosentinia vellea subsp. vellea (Aiton) Tod.

References

1. PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
2. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Cosentinia", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.11, archived from the original on 2017-09-02, retrieved 2019-12-28