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|accepted_name=Dicranopteris
|accepted_authority=Bernhardi
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Neues J. Bot.
|place=1(2): 38. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Forking ferns
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Gleicheniaceae;Dicranopteris
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gleicheniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranopteris]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek dikranos, twice-forked, and pteris, fern, derived from pteron, feather, in reference to the leaf architecture
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation"><b>Stems </b>long-creeping;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="hair count;hair architecture;hair texture;hair architecture or arrangement">hairs many celled, rigid to lax.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf count;growth development"><b>Leaves </b>usually separated several centimeters, of apparently indeterminate growth;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="pinna arrangement;pair count;pinna count;pinna shape;pinna variability;appendage architecture or shape">pinnae opposite, in 1–several pairs, each pinna 1–many times forked, equal, each fork bearing arrested apex (bud) covered with tuft of hairs (all other axes glabrous) and pair of stipulelike appendages.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="penultimate segment shape;penultimate segment orientation;pair variability"><b>Penultimate </b>segments pectinate, in ± equal pairs, usually ascending.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="vein shape"><b>Veins </b>2–4-forked.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="sporangium count"><b>Sori </b>with 6–15 or more sporangia, not paraphysate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spore architecture"><b>Spores </b>trilete.</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 8–12 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Dicranopteris
|author=Clifton E. Nauman
|authority=Bernhardi
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Gleicheniaceae
|distribution=Nearly worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Neues J. Bot.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Dicranopteris
|appendage architecture or shape=stipulelike
|growth development=indeterminate
|hair architecture=celled
|hair architecture or arrangement=lax
|hair count=many
|hair texture=rigid
|leaf arrangement=separated
|leaf count=several
|pair count=1;several
|pair variability=equal
|penultimate segment orientation=ascending
|penultimate segment shape=pectinate
|pinna arrangement=opposite
|pinna count=1;many
|pinna shape=forked
|pinna variability=equal
|sporangium count=6;15
|spore architecture=trilete
|stem growth form or orientation=long-creeping
|vein shape=2-4-forked
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