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Osmolindsaea
	Right: Osmolindsaea odorata (as the synonym Lindsaya apiculata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Family:	Lindsaeaceae
Genus:	Osmolindsaea; (K.U.Kramer) Lehtonen & Christenh.
Type species
	Osmolindsaea odorata; (Roxburgh) Lehtonen & Christenhusz
Species
	See text.
Synonyms
	Lindsaea sect. Osmolindsaea K.U.Kramer;

Osmolindsaea is a genus of ferns in the family Lindsaeaceae. Most species are found in southeastern Asia, from West Himalaya and Sri Lanka to Japan and New Guinea. Osmolindsaea latisquama and Osmolindsaea leptolepida (which may be synonymous) are found in Madagascar and the adjacent African mainland.^[1]^[2]

Species

As of November 2019^[update], the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized seven species,^[1] agreeing with the number in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).^[3] As of November 2019^[update], three of these were regarded as synonyms by Plants of the World Online (PoWO).^[2]

Phylogeny of Osmolindsaea^[4]^[5]

	O. minor (Hook.) Lehtonen & Christenh. [= Osmolindsaea odorata in PoWO]

	O. odorata (Roxb.) Lehtonen & Christenh.

O. leptolepida Rouhan & Lehtonen [=Osmolindsaea latisquama in PoWO]

	O. japonica (Baker) Lehtonen & Christenh.

	O. latisquama Lehtonen & Rouhan

Other species include:

Osmolindsaea himalaica (K.U.Kramer) Lehtonen & Christenh.
Osmolindsaea plumula (Ridl.) Lehtonen & Tuomisto [=Osmolindsaea odorata in PoWO]
Osmolindsaea ×yakushimensis Ebihara & Nakato

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019), "Osmolindsaea", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, Version 8.11, retrieved 2019-11-22
^ ^a ^b "Osmolindsaea (K.U.Kramer) Lehtonen & Christenh.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-11-22
^ 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.
^ Nitta, Joel H.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Iwasaki, Wataru; et al. (2022). "An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life". Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 909768. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.909768. PMC 9449725. PMID 36092417.
^ "Tree viewer: interactive visualization of FTOL". FTOL v1.5.0 [GenBank release 256]. 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2023.