Dipteridaceae

The Dipteridaceae is a family of ferns in the Gleicheniales order of the Polypodiopsida class.[1] They are commonly known as umbrella ferns and contain the two genera Cheiropleuria and Dipteris,[2] with a total of nine species.[3] The following diagram shows the placement of Dipteridaceae in a likely phylogenic relationship with the other two families of Gleicheniales.[4]

Gleicheniales
 
Gleicheniaceae

 6 genera

 
 
 
Matoniaceae

 2 genera

 
Dipteridaceae
 

Cheiropleuria – about 3 species

 
 

Dipteris – about 7 species

 
 
 
 

Umbrella ferns
Dipteris conjugata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Gleicheniales
Family: Dipteridaceae
Seward & E.Dale 1901
Genera
Synonyms

Cheiropleuriaceae Nakai 1928

References
  1. Alan R. Smith; Kathleen M. Pryer; Eric Schuettpelz; Petra Korall; Harald Schneider; Paul G. Wolf (2006). "A classification for extant ferns" (PDF). Taxon. 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-02-26.
  2. Maarten J. M. Christenhusz; Xian-Chun Zhang; Harald Schneider (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54.
  3. Christenhusz, M. J. M.; Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. Magnolia Press. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
  4. Samuli Lehtonen (2011). "Towards Resolving the Complete Fern Tree of Life" (PDF). PLoS ONE. 6 (10): e24851. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024851. PMC 3192703. PMID 22022365.
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