Dryopteridaceae
Wood Fern Family
The Dryopteridaceae family (Wood Fern Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Polypodiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 4 species. Its members are predominantly herbs.
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Finely divided, feathery fronds unfurling from tightly coiled fiddleheads, growing in a tuft or crown from a stout, scaly rhizome; spores form in rounded clusters (sori) on the frond underside, each typically covered by a small kidney-shaped flap (indusium).
As true ferns this family has no flowers or seeds — look instead at frond division, rhizome scale texture, and whether each sorus is covered by a distinctive kidney-shaped indusium.
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