Dryopteris

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Dryopteridaceae

• Scientific Name

  Dryopteris

• Description

  Description - Ferns with simple to 2-3 pinnate or pinnatifid leaves and round sori usually borne on the backs of the veins, the fertile and sterile leaves usually similar. Indusium flatfish, roundish-reniform, superior, fixed by its sinus, or the indusium minute and vestigial or altogether wanting. Stipe continuous, not jointed with the rootstock. Veins free or anastomosing. [Greek, signifying oak-fern, in allusion to the forest habitat of most species.] Species several hundred, of wide distribution. Type species: Polypodium Filix-mas L.