Plant theoryDryopteridaceae has 4 Subfamilies: Elaphoglossoideae, Polybotryoideae, Dryopteridoideae and Polystichoideae. Elaphoglossoideae is split off from Dryopteridaceae and placed in Subphase 1. Polybotryoideae is included in Dryopteridoideae and placed in subphase 2. This combination is monophyletic.

GeneraPolybotryoideae: Cyclodium, Maxonia, Olfersia, Polybotrya, Polystichopsis, Stigmatopteris, Trichoneuron.
Dryopteridoideae: Arachniodes, Ctenitis, Dryopteris.
Polystichoideae: Cyrtomium, Phanerophlebia, Polystichum.

BotanyKey: sori protected by kidney-shaped indusia!
Ferns; leptosporangiate.
Root: rhizomes are often stout, creeping, ascending, or erect, sometimes scandent or climbing; with nonclathrate scales at apices.
Leaves: usually monomorphic, sometimes dimorphic; sometimes scaly or glandular, less commonly hairy; petioles have numerous round, vascular bundles arranged in a ring, rarely three; adaxial bundles are largest; veins are pinnate or forking, free to variously anastomosing; areoles occur with or without included veinlets.
Sori: usually round; acrostichoid, = covering the entire abaxial surface of the lamina, in a few lineages; usually indusiate, sometimes exindusiate; indusia round-reniform or peltate; sporangia have three-rowed, short to long stalks.
Spores: reniform, monolete, perine or winged.

Stages Remedies2 Dryopteris sieboldii
5 Dryopteris oreades
6 Dryopteris affinis
10 Arachniodes aristata
11 Polystichum setiferum
12 Arachniodes simplicior
13 Dryopteris dilatata
13 Polystichum polyblepharum
14 Cyrtomium falcatum
15 Cyrtomium fortunei
15 Polystichum acrostichoides
16 Polystichum aculeatum
16 Polystichum luctuosum
17 Cyrtomidictyum lepidocaulon
x Arachniodes standishii
x Dryopteris aemula
x Dryopteris athamantica
x Dryopteris campyloptera
x Dryopteris carthusiana
x Dryopteris concolor
x Dryopteris cristata
x Dryopteris inaequalis
x Dryopteris marginalis
x Dryopteris oligodonta
x Dryopteris wallichiana
x Phanerophlebia caryotidea
x Phanerophlebia juglandifolia
x Polystichum braunii
x Polystichum munitum