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Crown clade: Polypodiophyta Cronquist, Takhtajan & Zimmermann 1966 [Cantino & Donoghue 2007] (plant)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Plantae

Phylogeny

Node-based clade Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14 ("node-based").
Crown clade Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14. [inferred]
Reference phylogeny [PhyloCode] Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14 ("Rothwell (1999: Fig. 2). See also Doyle (1998), Renzaglia & al. (2000), and Rothwell & Nixon (2006).").

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

Marattia attenuata Labill. (1824) Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14.
Ophioglossum reticulatum L. (1753) Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14.
Polypodium vulgare L. (1753) Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14.

Original entries

Apo-Leptosporangiatae (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007 Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1.
Leptosporangiatae (Clade) Bessey 1907 [Cantino & Donoghue 2007] Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14 ("total clade").
Marattiales (Clade) Link 1833 [Cantino & Donoghue 2007] Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14 ("total clade"), fig. 1.
Ophioglossales (Clade) Link 1833 [Cantino & Donoghue 2007] Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14 ("total clade"), fig. 1.
Possibly Psilotaceae (Clade) Eichler 1886 [Cantino & Donoghue 2007] Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14 ("total clade", "under some hypotheses").

Current position

Monilophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval. Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14; Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1. [new rank]

Historical positions

Monilophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval. Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E14-E15, table 1 (p. [E]5), fig. 1. [new rank]
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