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Item Open Access Adiantumshastense, a new species of maidenhair fern from California.(PhytoKeys, 2015) Huiet, L; Lenz, M; Nelson, JK; Pryer, KM; Smith, ARA new species of Adiantum is described from California. This species is endemic to northern California and is currently known only from Shasta County. We describe its discovery after first being collected over a century ago and distinguish it from Adiantumjordanii and Adiantumcapillus-veneris. It is evergreen and is sometimes, but not always, associated with limestone. The range of Adiantumshastense Huiet & A.R.Sm., sp. nov., is similar to several other Shasta County endemics that occur in the mesic forests of the Eastern Klamath Range, close to Shasta Lake, on limestone and metasedimentary substrates.Item Open Access Phylogeny and relationships of the neotropical Adiantum raddianum group (Pteridaceae)(Taxon, 2016-12-01) Hirai, RY; Schuettpelz, E; Huiet, L; Pryer, KM; Smith, AR; Prado, J© International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) 2016. With more than 200 species, the maidenhair fern genus Adiantum is among the top ten most diverse fern genera. Adiantum is pantropical in distribution and, due to the presence of a unique synapomorphy (sporangia borne on indusia rather than laminae), perhaps the most easily recognized fern genus. Many of its members, including numerous cultivars derived from A. raddianum, are grown as ornamentals. Because of its size, a comprehensive taxonomic study of Adiantum is difficult and the genus is perhaps better approached through a series of narrower studies. Here, we focus specifically on A. raddianum and putative allies. We find a newly defined A. raddianum group to be strongly supported as monophyletic and segregated from other maidenhair ferns on the basis of genetic as well as morphological characteristics. Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood analyses of plastid atpA, chlL, chlN, rbcL, and rpoA sequences support the A raddianum clade as sister to A poiretii and its allies. We identify round-reniform indusia to be a characteristic of the A.raddianum group (vs. lunate in the A.poiretii group). Additionally, we find species in the Apoiretii group to differ in having a unique 66 nucleotide deletion in our chlN gene alignment. The neotropical Araddianum group comprises at least 17 species (14 studied here), some widely distributed; one was recently described (A. alan-smithii).