Didymochlaena

Didymochlaena
Didymochlaena truncatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Polypodiineae
Family: Didymochlaenaceae
Ching ex Li Bing Zhang & Liang Zhang
Genus: Didymochlaena
Desv.
Type species
Didymochlaena sinuosa
Desv.
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Hippodium Gaudich.
  • Hysterocarpus Langsd. ex Fée
  • Monochlaena Gaudich. non de Cassini
  • Tegularia Reinw.

Didymochlaena is a genus of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Didymochlaenaceae. Alternatively, the family may be placed in a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato as the subfamily Didymochlaenoideae.