Family · Ferns & allies

Hypodematiaceae

Hypodematium ferns

Ferns of rocky, often limestone habitats with scaly swollen rhizome bases and kidney-shaped indusia.

Accepted species

30accepted names · Kew WCVP

Genera

2accepted genera · Kew WCVP

Origin

≈67 MaCretaceous · stem age, Jin & Qian 2022 megatree

Centre of diversity

Asia-Temperatemost native species · WGSRPD

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Plants you might know

• Hypodematium
• Leucostegia

Genera

• Hypodematium27 spp.
• Leucostegia3 spp.

Where it grows

• Asia-Temperate22
• Asia-Tropical12
• Africa3
• Pacific1

Native species richness by botanical continent (WGSRPD level 1), from Kew WCVP.

Related families

Hypodematiaceae sits in the order Polypodiales.

• PolypodiaceaePolypodies4,578
• AspleniaceaeSpleenworts3,534
• DryopteridaceaeWood ferns2,100
• PteridaceaeBrake ferns, maidenhair1,494
• ThelypteridaceaeMarsh ferns1,030
• AthyriaceaeLady ferns650
• DennstaedtiaceaeBracken282
• LindsaeaceaeLindsaea ferns270
• BlechnaceaeChain ferns265
• TectariaceaeHalberd ferns230
• LomariopsidaceaeLomariopsis ferns70
• DavalliaceaeHare's-foot ferns65
• OleandraceaeOleandra ferns40
• CystopteridaceaeBladder ferns37
• WoodsiaceaeCliff ferns35
• SaccolomataceaeSaccoloma ferns28
• NephrolepidaceaeBoston fern19
• RhachidosoraceaeRhachidosorus ferns8
• OnocleaceaeSensitive & ostrich ferns5
• DiplaziopsidaceaeDiplaziopsis ferns4
• CystodiaceaeCystodium fern2
• LonchitidaceaeLonchitis ferns2
• DesmophlebiaceaeDesmophlebium fern2
• DidymochlaenaceaeDidymochlaena fern2