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. 2026 Jan 16;269:193–208. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.176789

Arachniodes × tohtomiensis hyb. nov. (Dryopteridaceae) from Japan

Kiyotaka Hori 1,✉, Daiki Takahashi 2, Ying-Hong He 3, Thant Shin 4, Yoshihisa Suyama 3
PMCID: PMC12831111  PMID: 41585312

Abstract

This study aims to characterize a hybrid of Arachniodes (Dryopteridaceae), A. × tohtomiensis, for which molecular evidence of its origin and detailed morphological descriptions are lacking. The genome composition of A. × tohtomiensis, clarified based on plastid DNA and MIG-seq analyses, indicates that it is a diploid hybrid of A. exilis and an undetected species. This origin was also supported by phylogenetic, STRUCTURE, principal component, and neighbor-net analyses. Based on these evidences, it is formally described as A. × tohtomiensis Shimura & Hori, hyb. nov. It is morphologically characterized by its yellowish-green laminae and erose-to-ciliate indusia.

Key words: Diploid, neighbor-net analysis, new hybrid, MIG-seq, STRUCTURE analysis

Introduction

The fern genus Arachniodes (Dryopteridaceae) includes several species that are taxonomically challenging to differentiate, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. Identifying species in Arachniodes based solely on morphology is difficult because of their wide morphological variation, the absence of clear diagnostic traits, and the frequent occurrence of polyploidization and hybridization.

The 19 putative hybrids of Arachniodes listed in Japan help resolve the morphological overlap among species, although most lack DNA-based evidence (Ebihara 2017; Ebihara and Nitta 2019; Ebihara et al. 2023). However, MIG-seq analyses showed that several hybrid and allopolyploid species occur in Japan (Hori 2024; Hori et al. 2025). Among the 19 hybrids, A. × tohtomiensis nom. nud. is considered a diploid hybrid of A. exilis and an unidentified species, but molecular evidence supporting this hypothesis has not been provided (Shimura et al. 1982; Tsutsui 1988; Nakaike 1992; Ebihara 2017). Furthermore, morphological descriptions of diagnostic traits are also lacking (Shimura et al. 1982; Tsutsui 1988; Nakaike 1992; Ebihara 2017; Ebihara and Nitta 2019; Ebihara et al. 2023). This hybrid was firstly reported as ‘Arachniodes ×sp.’ from Japan by Shimura et al. (1982), who named it ‘enshu-kanawarabi’ in Japanese. Their cytological observations showed irregular meiosis, suggesting a diploid hybrid origin. In addition, Shimura et al. (1982) reported A. tsutsuiana nom. nud., as a diploid sexual species with intermediate morphological features between A. aristata (G. Forst.) Tindale and A. sporadosora (Kunze) Nakaike. Subsequently, Tsutsui (1988) mentioned this undescribed hybrid as A. × tohtomiensis Shimura nom. nud. Tsutsui (1988) morphologically compared A. × tohtomiensis with A. aristata, A. sporadosora, and A. tsutsuiana nom. nud., concluding that A. × tohtomiensis can be distinguished by its ciliate indusia from A. exilis, A. sporadosora, and A. tsutsuiana, whereas A. tsutsuiana is a hybrid of A. aristata and A. sporadosora. However, Tsutsui (1988) did not provide a Latin descriptions and designate holotypes for the two undescribed hybrids.

More recently, Serizawa (2009) revised the taxonomy of Arachniodes aristata, excluding it from the Japanese flora and applying the name A. exilis (Hance) Ching to the Japanese species previously called A. aristata. He also treated A. oohorae H. Itô as a form of A. exilis: A. exilis (Hance) Ching f. oohorae (H. Itô) Seriz. Ebihara (2017) subsequently considered (1) A. exilis f. oohorae synonymous with A. exilis, (2) A. tsutsuiana as A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and (3) A. × tohtomiensis as hybrids of A. exilis and an unidentified species. Chang et al. (2021) treated A. exilis and A. sporadosora as synonyms of A. carvifolia (Kunze) Ching and A. cornu-cervi (D. Don) Fraser-Jenk., respectively, although without molecular evidence. In addition, diploid sexual cytotypes of A. aristata and A. sporadosora have been reported from Japan (Mitui 1965; 1970; Kurita 1966; Hirabayashi 1970).

The aim in this study was to clarify the taxonomic identity of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis and its parental relationships. This study provides molecular evidence based on plastid DNA and MIG-seq analyses as well as detailed morphological descriptions with the designation of a holotype of A. × tohtomiensis.

Materials and methods

Leaf material was collected from Arachniodes cornu-cervi, A. exilis including A. oohorae, A. sporadosora, A. exilis × A. sporadosora (i.e. A. tsutsuiana), and A. × tohtomiensis. Voucher specimens were deposited with the Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden (MBK).

The nuclear DNA content of Arachniodes exilis, A. sporadosora, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis was estimated using flow cytometry, as described by Yamamoto et al. (2024) for several samples. Approximately 400 mm2 of fresh leaf tissue was chopped with a razor blade in 1 mL of Triton X-100 buffer together with leaf tissue of Vicia faba Inovec (2C = 26.9 pg; Doležel et al. 1992) as an internal standard. The filtrates were stained with propidium iodide, and approximately 3,000 nuclei were analyzed three times per sample using a Sysmex CyFlow Ploidy Analyzer (Sysmex, Japan). Additionally, the shapes of sporangia and spores of A. × tohtomiensis specimens were examined.

The total DNA was extracted from the silica-dried leaves using 2× CTAB buffer, following the methods of Doyle and Doyle (1990). The plastid rbcL gene and trnL–trnL-F intergenic spacer were amplified and sequenced as maternally inherited cpDNA markers (Gastony and Yatskievych 1992; Hori et al. 2018; Lu et al. 2019). The phylogenetic analyses were conducted using reference accessions from Lu et al. (2019). The sequences were aligned using MUSCLE (Edgar 2004) and analyzed using maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) methods. The ML and BI analyses were conducted with MEGA 12 (Kumar et al. 2024) and MrBayes 3.2.7 (Ronquist et al. 2012), respectively. The best-fit nucleotide substitution models (K80 + G + I for rbcL, HKY + G + I for trnL–trnL-F) were determined using jModelTest 2.1.10 (Darriba et al. 2012) based on the BIC values and applied in BI analyses. Because these models were unavailable in MEGA, the Tamura 3-parameter + G + I model was used for the ML analyses. Four Markov chains were simultaneously run for 1 million generations, sampling every 100 generations. Tracer 1.7.1 (Rambaut et al. 2018) was used to examine the posterior distributions and effective sample sizes, with the first 2,500 trees discarded as burn-in. The node support in the ML analyses was evaluated using 105 adaptive bootstrap replicates (threshold = 5.00). Rumohra adiantiformis (first stage) Ching was used as the outgroup according to Lu et al. (2019).

Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data were obtained using MIG-seq to infer the genomic composition of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis (Suyama and Matsuki 2015; Suyama et al. 2022). Twenty-seven samples covering A. exilis, A. sporadosora, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis were analyzed for population structure following the methods of Hori et al. (2025).

Low-quality and short reads were removed using Trimmomatic 0.39 (Bolger et al. 2014) using the same parameters as Hori et al. (2025). Trimmed paired-end reads were concatenated using CAT commands. Adapter trimming, quality filtering, de novo assembly, genotyping, and STRUCTURE input preparation were conducted with ipyrad v. 0.9.105 (Eaton and Overcast 2020) using the following key parameters: datatype = ddrad; filter for adapters/primers = 1; minimum depth for majority-rule base calls = 3; clust_threshold = 0.9; minimum read length after adapter trimming = 60. Branches were analyzed for each species in steps 4 and 5 and merged in step 6. The parameter min_samples_locus was set to 1 and 4 for steps 4–5 and 6–7, respectively; and all other parameters were set to the default.

STRUCTURE v. 2.3.4 (Pritchard et al. 2000) and principal component analysis (PCA) were plotted using the Jupyter notebook toolkit implemented in ipyrad. The hdf5 file was exported in step 7. The minimum coverage parameter (mincov) was tested from 0.7 to 0.96, and 0.9 was adopted, before STRUCTURE analyses. Unlinked SNPs were subsampled using the parameters described by Hori et al. (2025). The optimal K value was determined using the delta K method, and the mean log-likelihood probabilities were calculated using ipyrad. The PCA plots were generated with the following parameters: mincov = 0.6, impute_method = “sample,” and nreplicates = 100.

The .vcf file exported from ipyrad was converted to PHYLIP format and then to NEXUS format using PGDSpider 2.1.1.5 (Lischer and Excoffier 2012). Neighbor-net networks (Bryant and Moulton 2004) were constructed in SplitsTree4 v. 4.19.2 (Huson and Bryant 2006) using the uncorrected P-distance matrices calculated from the concatenated SNP sequences including invariant sites. Ambiguous sites were treated as missing data.

Finally, the apex of the laminae, color of the laminae, dissection of the laminae, most basiscopic pinnules, margin of indusia, stipe spacing on the rhizome, and rhizome morphology were compared among Arachniodes exilis, A. sporadosora, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis nom. nud.

Results

The mean DNA contents of Arachniodes exilis, A. sporadosora, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis were 16.1 pg (n = 3), 17.5 pg (n = 4), 16.5 pg (n = 1), and 15.9 pg (n = 3), respectively. The plastid DNA alignment was 2,005 bp long, of which 380 bp (18.9%) were parsimony-informative. An ML tree with bootstrap percentages (MLBS) and Bayesian posterior probabilities (BIPP) is shown in Fig. 1. Three plastid haplotype types were identified: A (A. × tohtomiensis), B (A. exilis or A. × tohtomiensis), and C (A. exilis × A. sporadosora and A. sporadosora). One haplotype (C1) of A. sporadosora is shared by A. multifida Ching, A. neoaristata Ching, A. pseudoaristata (Tagawa) Ohwi, A. subaristata Ching, and Y. T. Hsieh. A. carvifolia is closely related to A. sporadosora but their haplotypes are distinct (Fig. 1). A. cornu-cervi was placed at a separate position from A, B, and C.

Figure 1.

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The ML tree (log likelihood = −8487.91) based on the sequences of the plastid DNA. Thick lines indicate strong support (MLBS≥85% and BIPP≥95%). Haplotype A–C. are placed in strongly supported different clades, respectively.

The raw MIG-seq data were processed using Ipyrad. The total reads, clusters, read consensus sequences, and loci in the assembly were 33,457,768, 2,456,008, 652,046, and 337,985, respectively. The average number of reads per sample was 1,239,177 with 90,963 clusters, 24,149 read consensus sequences, and 12,517 loci. The SNP matrix contained 177,473 sites (69.6% missing), and the sequence matrix contained 3,216,355 sites (71.2% missing). The raw data were deposited in the DDBJ Sequence Read Archive (BioProject accession number: PRJDB20422).

Bayesian clustering analysis of 314 unlinked SNPs after filtering indicated that K = 6 was the optimal number of clusters (Evanno et al. 2005; Fig. 2). Of the three major clusters (green, yellow, orange), Arachniodes exilis and A. sporadosora were assigned to the green and yellow clusters, respectively. Their hybrid (A. exilis × A. sporadosora) exhibited a mixture of the characteristics of these clusters, whereas A. × tohtomiensis was associated with green and orange clusters (Fig. 3). No individuals were found in the orange cluster. The other three clusters were small and not specific for each species and hybrid.

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Delta K for each K in STRUCTURE analyses of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis and its relatives using SNP data from MIG-seq.

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STRUCTURE analyses of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis and its relatives using SNP data from MIG-seq.

PCA based on 1,746 unlinked SNPs showed that each taxon occupied a distinct position (Fig. 4). Arachniodes exilis × A. sporadosora was intermediate between the parental species in both PC1 and PC2, whereas A. × tohtomiensis clustered closer to A. exilis in PC1.

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PCA plots of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis and its relatives using SNP data from MIG-seq with PC1 and PC2.

In the neighbor-net network (Fig. 5), Arachniodes exilis, A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis formed three separate clusters, whereas Arachniodes exilis × A. sporadosora occupied an intermediate position, with reticulations connecting its parental species. A. exilis and A. × tohtomiensis formed two neighboring clusters.

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Neighbor-Net network of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis and its relatives using SNP data from MIG-seq.

The morphological characteristics of Arachniodes exilis, A. sporadosora, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis are summarized in Table 1. A. × tohtomiensis is characterized by yellowish-green, slightly glossy laminae, and erose or ciliate indusia. A. exilis, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis form dense forest floor populations with long creeping rhizomes (>15 cm), whereas A. sporadosora grows scattered with short rhizomes (<15 cm). The lamina color is yellowish-green and slightly glossy in A. × tohtomiensis in contrast to dark green and glossy in the others. The lamina texture is papyraceous in A. exilis and A. × tohtomiensis, coriaceous or papyraceous in A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and coriaceous in A. sporadosora. Lamina dissection varies as follows: tripinnate pinnatifid to tripinnate in A. sporadosora and A. × tohtomiensis, bi- to tripinnate pinnatifid in A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and bi- to tripinnate in A. exilis. The lamina apex subabruptly narrows in A. exilis and A. × tohtomiensis, gradually or subabruptly narrows in A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and gradually narrows in A. sporadosora. The stipe spacing on the rhizome is 4–5 cm in A. exilis and A. × tohtomiensis, 2–4 cm in A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and <1.5 cm in A. sporadosora. The indusia are erose or ciliate in A. × tohtomiensis, whereas entire in A. exilis and A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and usually entire (rarely slightly erose) in A. sporadosora.

Table 1.

Morphological characteristics of A. exilis, A. sporadosora, A. exilis ×A. sporadosora, and A. × tohtomiensis.

Characteristics/Species A. exilis A. sporadosora A. exilis × A. sporadosora A. × tohtomiensis
Rhizomes longer than 15 cm shorter than 15 cm longer than 15 cm longer than 15 cm
Stipe spacing on rhizomes 4–5 cm less than 1.5 cm 2–4 cm 4–5 cm
Color of adaxial surface of laminae glossy dark-green glossy dark-green glossy dark-green slightly glossy yellowish-green
Dissection at middle of laminae bipinnate to tripinnate tripinnate pinnatifid to tripinnate bipinnate to tripinnate pinnatifid tripinnate pinnatifid to tripinnate
Texture of laminae papyraceous coriaceous coriaceous or papyraceous papyraceous
Apex of laminae narrow subabruptly narrow gradually narrow gradually or subabruptly narrow subabruptly
Margin of indusia entire usually entire (rarelly erose) entire erose or ciliate
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Discussion

Plastid DNA phylogeny, STRUCTURE analysis, neighbor-net, and PCA consistently indicated that Arachniodes × tohtomiensis is a hybrid origin of A. exilis and undetected species. The plastid DNA phylogeny suggested that either A. exilis or an undetected parent was the maternal parent because seven samples had haplotype A (undetected species), and two samples had haplotype B (A. exilis). Evidence of an unknown genome was also provided through STRUCTURE analysis and PCA. No individuals were discovered that represented the pure genome of the undetected species.

Arachniodes exilis and A. sporadosora contributed to the formation of A. exilis × A. sporadosora, which is consistent with the morphological evidence and findings of previous molecular studies (Tsutsui 1988; Hori 2024). The maternal parent of the material analyzed in this study was likely A. sporadosora, which possesses the plastid haplotype C2. F1 hybrids of A. exilis × A. sporadosora produce viable spores capable of forming F2 hybrids with A. exilis; thus, recognizing this hybrid is challenging because of the continuous morphological variation between the parental species (Shimura et al. 1982; Tsutsui 1988). In contrast, A. × tohtomiensis contrastingly exhibited a relatively distinctive morphology, with slightly glossy yellowish-green laminae, and indusia erose or ciliate on margins. A hybrid may be formally described if at least one parent is known according to the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants (Turland et al. 2025). Although no known species matched the morphology inferred for this undetected parent based on the descriptions of Sino-Japanese species (He et al. 2013), the formal description of A. × tohtomiensis in this study represents an important step toward clarifying the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of the genus Arachniodes in the Sino-Japanese region.

The phylogenetic tree based on plastid DNA sequences (Fig. 1) did not support the taxonomic treatment of Chang et al. (2021), who synonymized Arachniodes exilis with A. carvifolia and A. sporadosora with A. cornu-cervi. Instead, it showed that A. exilis and A. sporadosora found in Japan are not closely related to these Chinese species; A. sporadosora is closely related to A. carvifolia, but distinct from it. Therefore, the treatment of these taxa as distinct species (Ebihara 2017; Lu et al. 2019) is supported.

The DNA content indicates that the materials examined in this study were diploid. The reported DNA contents are comparable to those of known diploid species and approximately half of those of tetraploid species in Arachniodes (Hori and Ichihara 2024; Hori et al. 2025). Therefore, A. × tohtomiensis is not an allopolyploid species, and polyploidization is not seemed to be occurred.

Taxonomic treatment

. Arachniodes × tohtomiensis

Shimura & Hori, hyb. nov.

544E6694-46DE-579E-94A8-41ECEB237824

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Arachniodes × tohtomiensis in its natural habitat.

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Arachniodes × tohtomiensis Shimura & Hori. A. Habit; B. Secondary pinnule; C. Lower stipe scale; D. Scale on abaxially surface of secondary pinnule; E. Indusium. A–E. From the holotype (Hori 3840, MBK0340006) (illustration by K. Hori).

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Irregular-shaped shrunken spores of Arachniodes × tohtomiensis. Scale bar: 100 μm.

  • — Arachniodes × tohtomiensis Shimura, Enum. Vasc. Pl. Fukuoka Pref. Jap. 1. Pterid.: 90. 1988, nom. nud.

Note.

An interspecific hybrid between A. exilis (Hance) Ching and an unknown species.

Diagnosis.

Arachniodes × tohtomiensis is similar to A. exilis, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. sporadosora in their aristate secondary pinnules. However, A. exilis, A. exilis × A. sporadosora, and A. sporadosora have glossy dark-green laminae adaxially and indusia entire on margins. The rhizomes of A. sporadosora are shorter than 15 cm. In contrast, A. × tohtomiensis has slightly glossy yellowish-green laminae, indusia erose or ciliate on margins, and rhizomes longer than 15 cm.

Type.

Japan. Honshu: Kyoto-fu, Fukuchiyama city, Tano, 35°13'38.56"N, 135°09'47.64"E, alt. 158 m, coniferous forest of Cryptomeria japonica (L.f.) D.Don, on soil, 8 Jan 2023, K. Hori 3840 (holotype: MBK0340006, isotype: MBK0340007, 0340008).

Description.

Terrestrial evergreen fern. Rhizomes: long creeping, occasionally branched, often forming pure forest population, 15–40 cm × 1–3 cm, sparsely set with roots and persistent, densely clothed with reddish-brown scales; fronds: 2–5 per rhizome; stipes: stramineous, spacing on the rhizome 4–5 cm, 15–40 cm × 0.2–0.3 cm, clothed with bullate black scales (2.2–7.5 mm × 0.5–1.0 mm, entire on margin) densely in basal, rather sparsely in middle to upper sections; laminae: slightly glossy yellowish-green on adaxial surface, quadripinnate pinnatifid at base, tripinnate pinnatifid to tripinnate at middle, bipinnate at apex, 35–40 cm × 25–37 cm, ovate-pentagonal or deltoid-pentagonal, papyraceous, apex subabruptly narrowed and elongated acute; rachises: stramineous, rather densely scaly; pinnae: 4–7 pairs, obliquely spreading, alternate, petiolated (2.5–6.0 mm long), lowest pair largest, lanceolate, 15–17 cm × 15–17 cm; primary pinnules: truncate toward the base, asymmetrical, acute at apex, 20–25 pairs at middle part of laminae, 1–20 pairs at upper part of laminae, basal basiscopic one or two and acroscopic one elongated (8–13 cm × 1.5–2.8 cm and shortly stalked), distally abruptly shortened and subsessile; secondary pinnules: deltoid-oblong, rather symmetrical, attenuate toward the base, obtuse at apex, ca. 0.6–1.8 cm × 0.3–1.2 cm, margin serrate to deeply pinnatifid, aristate, axes and veins covered with minute brown linear-subulate scales abaxially; the most basiscopic pinnules on the lowest pinnae: lanceolate, abruptly elongated than second basiscopic pinnules on the lowest pinnae, petiolated (1–3 mm long), 10–13 cm × 1.8–2.5 cm; sori: terminal on veinlets, 1–5 pairs per primary or secondary pinnules, medial between midvein and margin; indusia: cloudy white, reniform, erose or ciliate on margin, persistent; spores: irregular shaped, abortive, without ability of growing.

Etymology.

The name derives from ‘tohtomi’ which mean Shizuoka prefecture in Japanese where Arachniodes × tohtomiensis was initially found.

Additional specimens examined.

Japan. • Honshu: Shimane prefecture, Yasugi city, Hirose-cho, alt. 82 m, coniferous forest of C. japonica, on soil slope, 24 Aug 2024, K. Hori 4290 (MBK0351459). Shizuoka prefecture, Iwata city, Kaminobe, alt. 49 m, coniferous forest of C. japonica, on soil, 21 Jan 2023, K. Hori 3869 (MBK0340038). ibid., Jul 6 1980, Y. Shimura s.n. (TNS-VS-537144, diploid sterile, photo!). • Shikoku: Ehime prefecture, Saijo city, cultivated at the Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden, 19 Mar 2021, K. Hori 3500 (MBK0329364). Kochi prefecture, cultivated at the Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden, 4 Jan 2023, K. Hori 3835 (MBK0339966). • Kyushu: Fukuoka prefecture, Fukuoka city, Mt. Katanawa, alt. 191 m, coniferous forest of C. japonica, on soil, 9 Jan 2023, K. Hori 3847 (MBK0340015). ibid., Miyawaka-city, Rikimaru, alt. 49 m, on soil, 9 Jan 2023, K. Hori 3848 (MBK0340016). ibid., Kasuya-gun, Todoroki, alt. 191 m, coniferous forest of C. japonica, on soil, 9 Jan 2023, K. Hori 3850 (MBK0340018). Kumamoto prefecture, Amakusa city, Amakusa machi, Takahamakita, 7 April 2024, K. Hori 4224 (MBK0353331).

Distribution and ecology.

This hybrid is a naturally occurring taxon restricted to western Japan, growing on soil under coniferous or evergreen forests.

Supplementary Material

XML Treatment for Arachniodes × tohtomiensis

Acknowledgments

We are grateful for Mr. H. Kanemitsu, Mr. S. Sugiura, Mr. T. Sawada, Mr. Y. Ichihara, and Mr. K. Yamana in helping the collection of materials. We are also grateful for Dr. C.R. Fraser-Jenkins and Dr. Ngan Thi Lu for identification of Arachniodes cornu-cervi. For use the material collected from Myanmar, we express our cordial thanks to Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Director General, Forest Department, Dr. Thaung Naing Oo, Director of the Forest Research Institute, Forest Department, and Mr. Win Naing Thaw, Director of the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division, Forest Department, Myanmar, for their help in coordinating the expeditions.

Citation

Hori K, Takahashi D, He Y-H, Shin T, Suyama Y (2026) Arachniodes × tohtomiensis hyb. nov. (Dryopteridaceae) from Japan. PhytoKeys 269: 193–208. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.269.176789

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Conflict of interest

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Ethical statement

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Use of AI

No use of AI was reported.

Funding

No funding was reported.

Author contributions

Kiyotaka Hori conceived and designed the study, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript. Daiki Takahashi, Ying-Hong He, and Yoshihisa Suyama provided MIG-seq raw data. Thant Shin contributed to sampling of materials in Myanmar.

Author ORCIDs

Kiyotaka Hori https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6815-7595

Daiki Takahashi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4105-5417

Yoshihisa Suyama https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3136-5489

Data availability

All of the data that support the findings of this study are available in the main text or Supplementary Information.

Supplementary materials

Supplementary material 1

List of the samples in this study

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Data type

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XML Treatment for Arachniodes × tohtomiensis
phytokeys.269.176789-treatment1.xml (17.2KB, xml)
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List of the samples in this study

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Author: Kiyotaka Hori

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