Woodwardia

Woodwardia
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Woodwardia radicans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Blechnaceae
Subfamily: Woodwardiodeae
Genus: Woodwardia
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Species

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Synonyms
  • Anchistea C.Presl
  • Chieniopteris Ching
  • Lorinseria C.Presl
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Woodwardia is a genus of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, in the suborder Aspleniineae (eupolypods II) of the order Polypodiales.[1][2] Species are known as netted-chain ferns. The genus is native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are large ferns, with fronds growing to 50–300 cm long depending on the species. The fossil record of the genus extends to the Paleocene.[3]

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  3. ^ Song, Han-Zhang; Naugolnykh, Serge V.; Wu, Xin-Kai; Liu, Xiao-Yan; Jin, Jian-Hua (September 2021). "Fertile Woodwardia from the middle Eocene of South China and its implications for palaeogeography and palaeoclimate". Plant Diversity. 44 (6): 565–576. doi:10.1016/j.pld.2021.09.003. PMC 9751083. PMID 36540713. S2CID 240534497.