Clades:
Plagiogyriaceae.
Genus: 10 species.
Region: Asia, China; one is found in the Americas.
BotanyFern; terrestrial.
Leaves: 2 types; fertile ones longer than the sterile.
Habitat: on forest soils, in mountainous areas of tropical and subtropical regions. Most are native to
TaxonomyPlagiogyriaceae are a family of ferns in the order
Cyatheales with two extant genera in the Pteridophyte
Phylogeny Group classification of 2016.
Plagiogyriaceae may be treated as the subfamily Plagiogyrioideae in
Cyatheaceae.