fern family

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fern family - families of ferns and fern allies family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family" division Pteridophyta, Pteridophyta - containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta family Hymenophyllaceae, Hymenophyllaceae - terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns family Osmundaceae, Osmundaceae - large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas family Schizaeaceae, Schizaeaceae - small family of mainly tropical ferns family Marsileaceae, Marsileaceae - clover ferns family Salviniaceae, Salviniaceae - water ferns Azollaceae, family Azollaceae - used in some classifications for the genus Azolla family Ophioglossaceae, Ophioglossaceae - a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution family Gleicheniaceae, Gleicheniaceae - a family of ferns belonging to order Filicales family Parkeriaceae, Parkeriaceae - coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae - ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae) Adiantaceae, family Adiantaceae - used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae) family Vittariaceae, Vittariaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria Aspleniaceae, family Aspleniaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria Blechnaceae, family 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 Cyatheaceae, family Cyatheaceae - tropical tree ferns Davalliaceae, family Davalliaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems Dennstaedtiaceae, family Dennstaedtiaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems Dicksoniaceae, family Dicksoniaceae - tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans Athyriaceae, Dryopteridaceae, family Athyriaceae, family Dryopteridaceae - alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems family Lomariopsidaceae, Lomariopsidaceae - small family of usually scandent ferns family Lophosoriaceae, Lophosoriaceae - very small family of tree ferns family Loxomataceae, Loxomataceae - very small family of New Zealand ferns family Oleandraceae, Oleandraceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided family Marattiaceae, Marattiaceae - constituting the order Marattiales: chiefly tropical eusporangiate ferns with gigantic fronds family Psilotaceae, Psilotaceae - small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves family Psilophytaceae, Psilophytaceae - Paleozoic plants family Rhyniaceae, Rhyniaceae - primitive plants of the Paleozoic Equisetaceae, family Equisetaceae, horsetail family - sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies