Polypodiaceae

• Platycerium

  Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns.

• Polypodium

  A genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori.

• Aglaomorpha

  Epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia.

• Campyloneurum

  Epiphytic ferns of tropical America.

• Drynaria

  Large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Austral...

• genus Lecanopteris

  Epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea.

• Microgramma

  Epiphytic ferns of tropical America and Africa.

• Microsorium

  Tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia.

• Phlebodium

  Chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori.

• Pyrrosia

  Epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World.

• Solanopteris

  Tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as...

• Drymoglossum

  Epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea.

• Cyclophorus

  Tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia.

• Ceterach

  Small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants...

• Phyllitis

  A genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae (in some classification systems...

Blechnaceae

• Blechnum

  In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan...

• genus Doodia

  In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming...

• Woodwardia

  In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns.

• Sadleria

  Low tree ferns with large fronds; in rain forests and on lava flows of Hawaiian Island...

• Stenochlaena

  Large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa;...

Gleicheniaceae

• Diplopterygium

  Scandent thicket-forming ferns of Asia to western Pacific.

• Sticherus

  Umbrella ferns; warm regions of Australia and New Zealand.

• Gleichenia

  Type genus of Gleicheniaceae: leptosporangiate ferns with sessile sporangia; South Africa...

• Dicranopteris

  Terrestrial ferns of forest margin or open ground; pantropical.

Aspleniaceae

• Asplenium

  In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae.

• Schaffneria

  One species.

• Camptosorus

  Classification used in some especially former systems for plants usually placed in genus...

• Pleurosorus

  Small genus comprising terrestrial ferns; found in Chile and Spain and Morocco and Australia...

Schizaeaceae

• Schizaea

  Type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics; small leptosporangiate...

• Anemia

  Genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical ...

• Lygodium

  Chiefly tropical climbing ferns.

• Mohria

  African terrestrial ferns.

Marsileaceae

• Marsilea

  Clover ferns.

• Pilularia

  Pillworts.

• genus Regnellidium

  One species of aquatic or semiaquatic fern.

Ophioglossaceae

• Ophioglossum

  The type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae.

• Botrychium

  Grape fern; moonwort.

• Helminthostachys

  One species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia.

Osmundaceae

• genus Osmunda

  Type genus of the Osmundaceae.

• Leptopteris

  Including some ferns sometimes placed in genus Todea.

• Todea

  A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.

Salviniaceae

• Salvinia

  Type genus of the Salviniaceae: water ferns.

• Azolla

  A genus of fern sometimes placed in its own family Azollaceae.

Hymenophyllaceae

• Hymenophyllum

  Type genus of the Hymenophyllaceae: filmy ferns.

• Trichomanes

  Bristle ferns; kidney ferns.

Also contains

• genus Davallia

  Old World tropical fern; in some classification systems placed directly in family...

• Ceratopteris

  Water ferns.

• Vittaria

  Tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds.

• genus Pecopteris

  Genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns.

• Cyathea

  Type genus of the Cyatheaceae: tree ferns of the tropical rain forest to temperate wood...