Polypodiaceae
水龍骨科
特徵描述
作者
SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, DEVOL, CHARLES E. and KUO, CHEN-MENG
型態特徵
Usually epiphytes, growing on tree trunks, or moss-covered rocks, some terrestrial; rhizome dictyostelic, usually creeping; scales peltate, often clath rate. Fronds often simple (not lobed), pinnatifid, pinnate or rarely digitately lobed; stipes usually articulate to rhizome; veins anastomosing with included veinlets (venation pattern varies with the genera, often hidden). Sori usually round, oval or linear, and in some genera acrostichoid; exindusiate; peltate, clathrate paraphyses often present.
屬
A large family of mostly tropical ferns, with about 50 genera and over 1,000 species, 17 genera in Taiwan.