Family
Dryopteridaceae (Shieldfern family)
Dryopteris expansa. Photo: (c) Samuel Brinker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Dryopteridaceae are a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. They are known colloquially as the wood ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Polypodiineae. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Dryopteridoideae of a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato.
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