Lygodiaceae
Climbing Fern Family
The Lygodiaceae family (Climbing Fern Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Schizaeales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Its members are predominantly climbing ferns. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include Flexuose Climbing Fern and Climbing Maidenhair.
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A true fern with an unusual climbing habit: a slender, twining central stalk winds around supports, bearing lobed leaflets along its length, with spore-bearing leaflets forming small fringed flaps near the tips.
As a true fern this family has no flowers or seeds — remarkably, the entire climbing 'vine' is actually one single frond with an indefinitely growing tip, not a true stem at all.
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