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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)
English name Scientific name Status Alpine lady-fern Athyrium distentifolium: Native Lady-fern Athyrium filix-femina: Native Newman's lady-fern Athyrium flexile: Native Dickie's bladder-fern Cystopteris dickieana: Native Brittle bladder-fern Cystopteris fragilis: Native Mountain bladder-fern Cystopteris montana: Native Oak fern Gymnocarpium ...
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]
The scientific names and the informal English names used for this group of plants are ambiguous. For example, "Lycopodiophyta" and the shorter "Lycophyta" as well as the informal "lycophyte" may be used to include the extinct zosterophylls or to exclude them.
Thomas Moore (21 May 1821 – 1 January 1887) was a British gardener and botanist. An expert on ferns and fern allies from the British Isles, he served as Curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden from 1848 to 1887. In 1855 he authored The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland.
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This is an alphabetical listing of wort plants, meaning plants that employ the syllable wort in their English-language common names. According to the Oxford English Dictionary's Ask Oxford site, "A word with the suffix -wort is often very old. The Old English word was wyrt. The modern variation, root, comes from Old Norse.
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]