{{Short description|Genus of ferns}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Calciphilopteris | authority = Yesilyurt & H.Schneider | type_species = ''Calciphilopteris ludens'' | type_species_authority = (N.Wallich ex W.J.Hooker) Yesilyurt & H.Schneider | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}
'''''Calciphilopteris''''' is a genus of ferns in the family Pteridaceae. It is native to India and China, southward to Australia.<ref name="yesilyurt2010">Jovita C. Yesilyurt and Harald Schneider. 2010. "The new fern genus ''Calciphilopteris'' (Pteridaceae)". ''Phytotaxa'' '''7''':52-59. (See ''External links'' below).</ref> Its four species grow in crevices in limestone or they cling to the rock itself.
== Taxonomy == For a long time, the four species of ''Calciphilopteris'' were included in the polyphyletic genus ''Doryopteris''. Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that ''Calciphilopteris'' is the most basal clade in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae. It is thus far removed from ''Doryopteris palmata'', the type species of ''Doryopteris''.
''Calciphilopteris'' was described as a new genus in 2010.<ref name="yesilyurt2010"/> The generic name is said to be derived from the Greek ''calx'' (limestone), ''philus'' (loving), and ''pteris'' (fern).<ref name="yesilyurt2010"/> ''Kalx'' can not be found in ancient Greek,<ref name="Liddell & Scott" /> however ''calx'' is the Latin word for "limestone",<ref name="Lewis & Short">Lewis, C.T. & Short, C. (1879). ''A Latin dictionary founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press.</ref> possibly derived from ancient Greek ''chalix'' (χάλιξ) or derived from a word from a different Mediterranean language.<ref name="Vaan">de Vaan, M. (2008). ''Etymological dictionary of Latin and the other Italic languages.'' Leiden/Boston: Brill.</ref> The proper word in ancient Greek for "loving" is ''philos'' (φίλος).<ref name="Liddell & Scott">Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). ''A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press.</ref>
== Species == {{As of|2020|January}}, the ''Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World'' recognized the following species:<ref name=CFLW/> * ''Calciphilopteris alleniae'' <small> (R.M.Tryon) Yesilyurt & H.Schneider </small> * ''Calciphilopteris ludens'' <small> (Wall. ex Hook.) Yesilyurt & H.Schneider </small> * ''Calciphilopteris papuana'' <small> (Copel.) Yesilyurt & H.Schneider </small> * ''Calciphilopteris wallichii'' <small> (J.Sm.) Yesilyurt & H.Schneider </small>
== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=CFLW>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Hassler |first1=Michael |last2=Schmitt |first2=Bernd |date=November 2019 |contribution=Oeosporangium |title=Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World |at=8.11 |url=https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/ |accessdate=2020-01-01 |name-list-style=amp |archive-date=2017-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902225743/http://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> }}
== External links == * [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2010/f/pt00007p059.pdf ''Calciphilopteris''] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2010/pt00007.htm Volume 7] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content.htm Online content] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/index.htm Phytotaxa] * [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=C12FE46C861E4C65A137DE3DA192C581?find_family=&find_genus=Calciphilopteris&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch ''Calciphilopteris''] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantnamesearchpage.do Plant Names] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.ipni.org/ IPNI] * [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100363133 ''Calciphilopteris (exact)''] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx Names] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.tropicos.org Tropicos] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/default.asp Science and Conservation] <span style="color:green;">At:</span> [http://www.mobot.org Missouri Botanical Garden]
{{Plant classification}} {{Fern classification}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q5018791}} Category:Pteridaceae Category:Fern genera