Melpomene

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Home Plants tracheophyta polypodiopsida polypodiales polypodiaceae Melpomene

A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran

1992

dwarf polypody

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Melpomene is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Grammitidoideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). It is native to the Neotropical realm in the Americas and Africa. The genus name of Melpomene is named after Melpomene, the Greek mythology being, the muse of chorus, who eventually became the muse of tragedy. The genus was circumscribed by Alan Reid Smith and Robbin C. Moran in Novon Vol.2 (Issue 4) on page 426 in 1992. ...read more on Wikipedia.