English: Moonwort family.
Clades:
Equisetales;
Equisetidae;
Equisetanae;
Pteridophyta;
Plants.
Members: 3 genera: Botrychium, Botrypus, Sceptridium.
TaxonomyIn the Ppg1 classification
Botrychiaceae is part of Ohioglossaceae, 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.