Woodsiaceae

Woodsiaceae
Woodsia alpina
Physematium oreganum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Woodsiaceae
Herter
Genera
Synonyms
  • Physematieae Smith 1875
  • Protowoodsioideae Shmakov 2001
  • Woodsiinae Hooker 1844
  • Woodsieae Gray 1856
  • Woodsioideae Fomin 1911

Woodsiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is placed in the suborder Aspleniineae. The family can also be treated as the subfamily Woodsioideae of a very broadly defined family Aspleniaceae sensu lato. In PPG I, the family contained only one genus, Woodsia. In 2020, Physematium was split off from Woodsia on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence. As of June 2023, Plants of the World Online continued to treat Physematium as a synonym of Woodsia.