Dryopteridales

The Dryopteridales are the Wood ferns and Sword ferns. Their segregation as a discrete order is well-supported by modern genetic evidence. They are widespread in temperate and tropical zones, with a few genera adapted to mountain climates. All ferns in Dryopteridales have scaly rhizome Rhizome

A rhizome is, in botany [i], a usually underground, horizontal stem [i] of a plant [i] that o ...

s and stipes. They may have either crowned or shortly-creeping rhizomes. Dryopteris is from the Greek, drus , "oak", and pteris , "fern", meaning "fern of the oak wood".

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The Dryopteridales are the Wood ferns and Sword ferns. Their segregation as a discrete order is well-supported by modern genetic evidence. They are widespread in temperate and tropical zones, with a few genera adapted to mountain climates.

All ferns in Dryopteridales have scaly rhizome Rhizome

A rhizome is, in botany [i], a usually underground, horizontal stem [i] of a plant [i] that o ...

s and stipes. They may have either crowned or shortly-creeping rhizomes.

Dryopteris is from the Greek, drus , "oak", and pteris , "fern", meaning "fern of the oak wood".