Athyriaceae

Athyriaceae
Athyrium filix-femina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Athyriaceae
Alston[1]
Type genus
Athyrium
Genera

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The Athyriaceae (ladyferns and allies)[2] are a family of terrestrial ferns in the order Polypodiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Aspleniineae, and includes two genera.[1] Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Athyrioideae of a very broadly defined family Aspleniaceae.[3] The family has with a cosmopolitan distribution.

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