''Didymochlaena'' is a genus of

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with only one species, ''Didymochlaena truncatula'', also known under the synonym ''Didymochlaena sinuosa''. In the

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classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family ''Didymochlaenaceae''. Alternatively, the family may be placed in a very broadly defined family

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'' as the subfamily Didymochlaenoideae. It is commonly grown as a

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, and is sometimes known as the mahogany maidenhair.

Species

* ''D. attenuata'' (Bonap. 1917) Zhang & Shang 2020 * ''D. bipinnatipartita'' (Bonap. 1925) Zhang & Shang 2020 * ''D. deltoidea'' Zhang & Shang 2020 * ''D. dimidiata'' Kunze 1844 * †''D. freyeri'' (Unger 1852) von Ettingshausen 1870 * ''D. fijiensis'' Zhang & Shang 2021 * ''D. lunulata'' Desvaux 1827 * ''D. madagascariensis'' Zhang & Shang 2020 * ''D. oceanica'' (Rosenstock 1908) Zhang & Shang 2021 * ''D. philippensis'' Zhang & Shang 2021 * ''D. pulcherrima'' Herter 1940 * ''D. punctata'' Zhang & Shang 2021 * ''D. sinuosa'' Desvaux 1811 * ''D. solomonensis'' Zhang & Shang 2021 * ''D. spinulosa'' (Brause 1910) Zhang & Shang 2020 * ''D. truncatula'' (Swartz 1801) Smith 1841

Phylogeny

References

Polypodiales House plants Monotypic fern genera {{Polypodiales-stub