cliff ferns
Woodsiaceae
The Woodsiaceae or cliff ferns is a family of ferns in the Eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida. It contains the three genera Cheilanthopsis, Hymenocystis, and Woodsia. However, the first two are very similar to Woodsia and may be merged into it at some point.
2 branches of this family, most-observed first
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Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 64663.