Didymochlaena
Genus of ferns
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Didymochlaena is a genus of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Didymochlaenaceae.[2] Alternatively, the family may be placed in a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato as the subfamily Didymochlaenoideae.[3]
| Didymochlaena | |
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| Didymochlaena truncatula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Polypodiineae |
| Family: | Didymochlaenaceae Ching ex Li Bing Zhang & Liang Zhang |
| Genus: | Didymochlaena Desv. |
| Type species | |
| Didymochlaena sinuosa Desv. | |
| Species | |
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Description
Members of this genus are terrestrial, evergreen plants growing 0.8–3 m (2 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall. The fronds arise from upright, scaly rhizomes. The leaves are bipinnate and imparipinnate.[4]
Phylogeny
This genus includes the following species:[1]
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Other species include:[citation needed]
- D. comorensis Li Bing Zhang & H.Shang
- D. cubensis Li Bing Zhang & H.Shang
- D. pulcherrima Herter
- D. squamata (Willd.) Desv.
