Botrychiaceae

3-432.13.00IntroductionEnglish: Moonwort family.
Clades: Equisetales; Equisetidae; Equisetanae; Pteridophyta; Plants.
Members: 3 genera: Botrychium, Botrypus, Sceptridium.TaxonomyIn the PG1 classification Botrychiaceae is part of Ophioglossaceae, in the order Ophioglossales, in the subclass Ophioglossidae. Botrychiaceae is included in Ophioglossaceae.
Older fern classifications took a broad circumscription of Botrychium and included the genus in family Ophioglossaceae.
Smith subsumes Botrychiaceae into the Ophioglossaceae.
Some botanists include Botrypus and Sceptridium within Botrychium, while others treat them as distinct.Plant theoryBotrychiaceae is treated as a family, split off from Ophioglossaceae. Botrychiaceae is tentatively placed in subphase 3.BotanyFerns; small; some stay underground, nourished from an association with mycorrhizal fungi.
Roots: fleshy.
Leaves: trophophore is sterile and fernlike; the sporophore is fertile and carries the clusters of sporangia or spore cases.
Reproduction: by spores, shed into the air.Stages Remedies12 Botrypus virginianum
15 Botrychium lunaria
x Japanobotrychum lanuginosum
x Sceptridium multifidum