Athyrium

Athyrium (lady-fern) is a genus of about 180 species of terrestrial ferns,

with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is placed in the family Athyriaceae, in
Athyrium
the order Polypodiales.[1][2] Its genus name is from Greek a- ('without')
and Latinized Greek thureos ('shield'), describing its inconspicuous
indusium (sorus' covering).[3] The common name "lady fern" refers in
particular to the common lady fern.[4]

Athyrium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some

Lepidoptera species including Small Angle Shades and Sthenopis auratus.

Species Athyrium filix-femina

There are about 180, including: Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida
(disputed)

Order: Polypodiales
Family: Athyriaceae
Genus: Athyrium
Roth

Species
See text
 19th century illustration ofA. filix-
femina

Athyrium adpressum Athyrium fangii Athyrium pachysorum

Athyrium alpestre Athyrium filix-femina Athyrium parapellucidum
Athyrium angustum Athyrium fimbriatum Athyrium pectinatum
Athyrium anisopterum Athyrium fissum Athyrium pellucidum
Athyrium araiostegioides Athyrium flabellulatum Athyrium pseudo-filix-
Athyrium arisanense Athyrium flavicoma femina
Athyrium asplenioides Athyrium flexile Athyrium pubicostatum
Athyrium atkinsonii Athyrium fragile Athyrium rachidosorum
Athyrium attenuatum Athyrium fujianense Athyrium reflexipinnum
Athyrium auriculatum Athyrium giganteum Athyrium roseum
Athyrium austro-orientale Athyrium goeringianum Athyrium rotundilobum
Athyrium austro- Athyrium guangnanense Athyrium rubripes
yunnanense Athyrium haleakalae Athyrium rupicola
Athyrium biseralatum Athyrium himalaicum Athyrium sessile
Athyrium bomicola Athyrium hirtirachis Athyrium sikkimense
Athyrium brevifrons Athyrium huhsienense Athyrium silvicolum
Athyrium brevisorum Athyrium imbricatum Athyrium sinense
Athyrium bucahwangense Athyrium iseanum Athyrium stenopodum
Athyrium caudipinna Athyrium kanghsienense Athyrium strigillosum
Athyrium chingianum Athyrium kenzo-satakei Athyrium submacrocarpum
Athyrium christensenii Athyrium kuratae Athyrium subrigescens
Athyrium clarkei Athyrium leiopodum Athyrium supraspinescens
Athyrium clivicola Athyrium Athyrium tenuicaule
Athyrium criticum liangwangshanicum Athyrium tenuifolium
Athyrium cryptogrammoides Athyrium mackinnonii Athyrium tibeticum
Athyrium delavayi Athyrium macrocarpum Athyrium tozanense
Athyrium delicatulum Athyrium medium Athyrium vidalii
Athyrium densisorum Athyrium medogense Athyrium tripinnatum
 Athyrium dentilobum Athyrium melanolepis Athyrium viviparum
Athyrium devolii Athyrium mengtzeense Athyrium wallichianum
Athyrium dissitifolium Athyrium multidentatum Athyrium wardii
Athyrium distentifolium Athyrium nakanoi Athyrium wuliangshanense
Athyrium drepanopterum Athyrium nephrodioides Athyrium yokoscense
Athyrium dubium Athyrium nigripes Athyrium yui
Athyrium duthiei Athyrium niponicum Athyrium yunnanense
Athyrium epirachis Athyrium nyalamense
Athyrium erithrocaulon Athyrium oppositipinnum
Athyrium erythropodum Athyrium otophorum
Athyrium fallaciosum Athyrium pachyphlebium
Athyrium pachyphyllum

References
1. Alan R. Smith; Kathleen M. Pryer; Eric Schuettpelz; Petra Korall; Harald Schneider; Paul G. olf
W (2006). "A
classification for extant ferns"(https://web.archive.org/web/20080226232147/http://www .pryerlab.net/publication/fichi
er749.pdf) (PDF). Taxon. 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646 (https://doi.org/10.2307/25065646). Archived from
the original (http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf) (PDF) on 2008-02-26.
2. Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider (2011)."A linear sequence of extant families and
genera of lycophytes and ferns"(http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2011/f/pt00019p054.pdf)(PDF).
Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54.
3. Lloyd H. Snyder, Jr.; James G. Bruce (1 October 1986).Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia
(https://books.google.com/books?id=n1iTLCVYcksC&pg=P A114). University of Georgia Press. p. 114.ISBN 978-0-
8203-2385-5. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
4. Entry "lady fern", New Oxford American Dictionary 3rd edition(2010) by Oxford University Press, Inc.

External links
Flora of China
Flora Europaea
Flora of North America

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