Dennstaedtiaceae
Bracken Family
The Dennstaedtiaceae family (Bracken Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Polypodiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species across 2 genera. Members range from herbs to undershrubs. Well-represented genera include Microlepia and Pteridium. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include limpleaf fern and South Asian bracken.
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Coarse, often large, much-divided fronds arising singly at intervals from a far-creeping underground rhizome rather than in a tight tuft; marginal spore clusters run in a narrow continuous line just inside the leaflet edge.
As true ferns this family has no flowers or seeds — bracken's far-creeping rhizome lets a single plant spread across large areas, often forming dense colonial stands rather than isolated clumps.
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