English > family Polypodiaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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). |
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| Synonym | Polypodiaceae |
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| Member of | Filicales, order Filicales, Polypodiales, order Polypodiales | true (leptosporangiate) ferns |
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| Members | Aglaomorpha, genus Aglaomorpha | epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia |
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| Campyloneurum, genus Campyloneurum | epiphytic ferns of tropical America |
| Ceterach, genus Ceterach | small genus of Old World ferns |
| Cyclophorus, genus Cyclophorus | Tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia |
| Drymoglossum, genus Drymoglossum | epiphytic ferns of Madagascar / Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea |
| Drynaria, genus Drynaria | large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest / forest and scrub |
| Microgramma, genus Microgramma | epiphytic ferns of tropical America and Africa |
| Microsorium, genus Microsorium | Tropical usually epiphytic ferns |
| Phlebodium, genus Phlebodium | chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori |
| Phyllitis, genus Phyllitis, genus Scolopendrium | A genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae (in some classification systems included in genus Asplenium) |
| Platycerium, genus Platycerium | Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns |
| Polypodium, genus Polypodium | A genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori |
| Pyrrosia, genus Pyrrosia | epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World |
| Solanopteris, genus Solanopteris | Tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as scales |
| genus Lecanopteris | epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea |
| Broader | fern family | families of ferns and fern allies |
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| Spanish | polipodiáceas |
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