Blechnaceae

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Blechnaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia family Blechnaceae fern family - families of ferns and fern allies Filicales, order Filicales, order Polypodiales, Polypodiales - true (leptosporangiate) ferns Blechnum, genus Blechnum - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns genus Doodia, Doodia - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia genus Sadleria, Sadleria - low tree ferns with large fronds; in rain forests and on lava flows of Hawaiian Islands genus Stenochlaena, Stenochlaena - large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia genus Woodwardia, Woodwardia - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns