🌿 Family

Onocleaceae

3 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Polypodiopsida › Polypodiales › Onocleaceae

Matteuccia struthiopteris, commonly ostrich fern, is a large Northern Hemisphere fern grown ornamentally and harvested for edible fiddleheads.

Onoclea sensibilis, the bead fern, is a Northern Hemisphere fern with distinct fertile and sterile fronds and a long fossil history.

Pentarhizidium orientale, the Oriental ostrich fern, is an East Asian/Himalayan fern reclassified from Matteuccia to its current genus.

Related Families

Pteridaceae 105 species Dryopteridaceae 52 species Polypodiaceae 51 species Blechnaceae 43 species Aspleniaceae 41 species Dennstaedtiaceae 20 species Athyriaceae 12 species Thelypteridaceae 12 species

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