English: Cliff ferns.
Clades:
Aspleniales; Aspleniineae;
Polypodianae;
Pteridophyta;
Plants.
Genera: Cheilanthopsis, Hymenocystis, Woodsia; ± 45 species.
Region: circumpolar, America, Europe, Asia.
Habitat: temperate and alpine regions, on rocks, in crevices, limestone rock.
Ecology: threatened or endangered in USA.
Culture: Petridomania, fern fever in collecting Woodsia.
Use: ornamental, for their delicate, feathery leaves, in shaded gardens.
Plant theoryIn the plant theory
Woodsiaceae is tentatively placed in subphase 4.
TaxonomyIn the Pteridophyte
Phylogeny Group classification of 2016, it is the only genus in the family
Woodsiaceae, placed in the suborder Aspleniineae. The family can also be treated as the subfamily Woodsioideae of a very broadly defined family
Aspleniaceae sensu lato.
Formerly
Woodsiaceae included the members of the families
Athyriaceae and
Diplaziopsidaceae.
BotanyFerns; lithophytic.