Bed-jacket vs hooked-pepperwort

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Marsilea vestita

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while hooked-pepperwort is Near Threatened.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	hooked-pepperwort
Kingdom same	Plantae (Plants)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Sapindaceae	Marsileaceae
Genus	Alectryon	Marsilea
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Marsilea vestita

Evolutionary Relationship

Bed-jacket and hooked-pepperwort share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Plantae. (Plants)

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

hooked-pepperwort

NT — Near Threatened

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	hooked-pepperwort
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

hooked-pepperwort

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Neotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Canada and Cuba. Listed as Near Threatened, this species requires ongoing monitoring to prevent population decline.

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.