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English name Scientific name Status House holly-fern Cyrtomium falcatum: Introduced Hay-scented buckler-fern Dryopteris aemula: Native Scaly male-fern Dryopteris affinis: Native Narrow buckler-fern Dryopteris carthusiana: Native Crested buckler-fern Dryopteris cristata: Native Broad buckler-fern Dryopteris dilatata: Native Northern buckler-fern
Fern allies and ferns were sometimes grouped together as division Pteridophyta. [1] Another traditional classification scheme of living plants is as follows (here, the first three classes are the "fern allies"): Kingdom: Plantae. Division Tracheophyta (vascular plants) Class Lycopodiopsida, clubmosses and related plants (fern-allies)
The name Pteridophyte is a Neo-Latin compound word created by English speakers around 1880. [1] It is formed from the prefix pterido-meaning fern, a Latin borrowing of the Greek word pterís which derives from pterón meaning feather. [2] The suffix, -phyte, is a suffix meaning plant from the ancient Greek word phyton (ϕυτόν). [3]
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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]
Pteris (brake) is a genus of about 300 species of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. [1] [2] They are native to tropical and subtropical regions, southward to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, north to Japan and North America. 78 species (35 endemic) are found in China. [3]
Schizaea is a small genus of specialized ferns in the family Schizaeaceae.Common names include curlygrass fern [1] and comb fern.Some species are very small and inconspicuous, and so may often be overlooked in nature.
Farwell - Southern lady fern [M] Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernhardi - Brittle fern, Bladder fern [Wo] Deparia acrostichoides (Swartz) M. Kato - Silvery Spleenwort [Wo] Dryopteris carthusiana (Villars) H.P. Fuchs - Spinulose shield fern, Narrow buckler fern [Wo] Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray - Crested wood fern, Crested buckler fern [Wo]