Didymoglossum

Didymoglossum
Didymoglossum reptans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Hymenophyllales
Family: Hymenophyllaceae
Subfamily: Trichomanoideae
Genus: Didymoglossum
Desv.
Type species
Didymoglossum muscoides
(Dw.) Desvaux 1827
Subgenera
  • Subg. Didymoglossum
  • Subg. Microgonium
Synonyms
  • Hemiphlebium Presl 1843
  • Lecanium Presl 1843 non Reinwardt 1825
  • Lecanolepis Pichi-Sermolli 1973
  • Microgonium Presl 1843

Didymoglossum is a tropical genus of ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae. It comprises more than 30 epilithic or low-epiphytic species under two subgenera. The genus is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not by some other sources which sink it into a broadly defined Trichomanes.