Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta (Filicophyta)
Class: Pteridopsida (Filicopsida)
Subclass: Polypoditae
Order: Athyriales

Family: Onocleaceae

This might be called the bead fern family, after the beaded appearance of spore stalks. Its three members all have completely dimorphic fronds, with the sporangia contained in specially modified frond tissue that forms a sort of pod structure around the sporangia.

Genera of Onocleaceae:

  1. Onoclea
    2. >
  2. Onocleopsis
  3. Matteuccia

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This page was last revised on 11-10-1997.