Arachniodes

Common name:         unknown  

Conservation status: unkown

Etymology:   

• From the Greek arachniodes (like a spider's web), a reference to the indumentum of one species

Spores:                            

• x

Leaves:         

• x

Stem & branches: 

• x

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• x 

Habitat:   

• x 

Distribution:                  

• x

Species:                     

• World:            S,    G

• Australia:      S,    G

Additional notes:     

• Arachniodes is a fern genus in the family Dryopteridaceae (wood ferns), subfamily Dryopteridoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I)

• A number of species in this genus are known as "holly ferns"

• The genus Arachniodes was first published by Carl Ludwig von Blume in 1828, with the single Indonesian species Arachniodes aspidioides

• The genus was not widely recognized until Mary Douglas Tindale transferred the two species (Byrsopteris amabilis and Byrsopteris aristata) into it in 1961

• Species

  • The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) considers Arachniodes to have 60 species.[1] As of January 2020, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted 78 species: