Woodsia

This article is about the genus of plants. For the genus of fish, see Woodsia (fish).

Woodsia
Woodsia alpina[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Woodsiaceae
Herter[1]
Genus: Woodsia
R.Br.[1][2]

Woodsia is a genus of ferns in the family Woodsiaceae. Species of Woodsia are commonly known as cliff ferns.[4]: 224  In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae.[1] In 2020, Physematium was split off from Woodsia on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence.[5] As of June 2023, Plants of the World Online continued to treat Physematium as a synonym of Woodsia.[6]

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