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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pteridophyta
Classis: Polypodiopsida
Ordo: Polypodiales

Familia: Polypodiaceae
Subfamilia: Platycerioideae
Genera: Platycerium - Pyrrosia (incl. Drymogolossum, Saxiglossum)
Name
Platycerioideae

Platycerioideae is a small subfamily of the fern family Polypodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] The subfamily is also treated as the tribe Platycerieae within a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato.[2]

Two genera are recognized in PPG I:[1]

Platycerium Desv.
Pyrrosia Mirb.

References

PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. & Chase, Mark W. (2014), "Trends and concepts in fern classification", Annals of Botany, 113 (9): 571–594, doi:10.1093/aob/mct299, PMC 3936591, PMID 24532607

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