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Dryopteridaceae
Sign in to saveThe Dryopteridaceae are a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. They are known colloquially as the wood ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Polypodiineae. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Dryopteridoideae of a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato.
OverviewAI-generated
Dryopteridaceae is a family of plants within the kingdom Plantae. It belongs to the phylum Tracheophyta, class Polypodiopsida, and order Polypodiales. The parent taxon is Polypodiineae, and the taxonomic type is Dryopteris. Common names for this family include Niervarenfamilie, 관중과, 鳞毛蕨科, and glistovničevke.
Records for Dryopteridaceae exist in various databases. The iDigBio database lists 984 records and 610 media items from institutions such as UCMP, MICH, CAS, USCH, and ANSP. These records originate from the United States, Canada, China, Colombia, and El Salvador. A total of 3,807,119 occurrences are noted in the Gbif Occ dataset, while PubMed contains 342 entries related to the family.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, Plants of the World, Gbif Occ, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderPolypodiales
- FamilyDryopteridaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 984
- With media
- 610
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae
- Collections
- UCMP, MICH, CAS, USCH, ANSP, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica
Research
342 papers- Dryopteris×subdiffracta (Dryopteridaceae), a new natural hybrid fern from Guangxi, China.PhytoKeys · 2024
- Cyrtomiumadenotrichum (Dryopteridaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China.PhytoKeys · 2024
- In Silico Approaches to Identify Polyphenol Compounds as α-Glucosidase and α-Amylase Inhibitors against Type-II Diabetes.Biomolecules · 2021
- A revised classification of Dryopteridaceae based on plastome phylogenomics and morphological evidence, with the description of a new genus, Pseudarachniodes.Plant diversity · 2025
- The complete chloroplast genome of Eastern Asian fern Bolbitis laxireticulata (Dryopteridaceae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2023
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- History
- Phylogeny
- Subdivision
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The Dryopteridaceae are a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. They are known colloquially as the wood ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Polypodiineae. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Dryopteridoideae of a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato.
The family contains about 1700 species and has a cosmopolitan distribution. Species may be terrestrial, epipetric, hemiepiphytic, or epiphytic. Many are cultivated as ornamental plants. The largest genera are Elaphoglossum (600+), Polystichum (260), Dryopteris (225), and Ctenitis (150). These four genera contain about 70% of the species. Dryopteridaceae diverged from the other families in eupolypods I about 100 million years ago. The fossil record appears to show the earliest members of the group emerging some 99 MYA during the Mid Cretaceous.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dryopteridaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.