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Dipteridaceae
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Dipteridaceae

The Dipteridaceae is a family of ferns in the Gleicheniales order of the Polypodiopsida class. They are commonly known as umbrella ferns and contain the two genera Cheiropleuria and Dipteris, with a total of nine species. The following diagram shows the placement of Dipteridaceae in a likely phylogenic relationship with the other two families of Gleicheniales.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64680.