Plants terrestrial or on rock. Stems compact or short-creeping, horizontal, solenostelic (having phloem on both sides of xylem) or dictyostelic (having complex nets of xylem), clothed with orange to reddish brown hairs. Leaves erect [rarely forming a flat rosette], partially to entirely dimorphic. Sporangia in 2 rows on ultimate segments of fertile pinnae, sessile, oblong; annulus apical. Spores tetrahedral-globose, with parallel or rarely anastomosing ridges. Gametophytes terrestrial, green, cordate with unequal lobes.

Distribution

Widespread in tropical and subtropical regions.

Discussion

Genera 2, species 119 (1 genus, 3 species in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Anemia

Illustrations

	Family ⠉	Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Anemiaceae Lygodiaceae Lygodiaceae Anemiaceae Anemiaceae	Anemia mexicana Lygodium japonicum Lygodium palmatum Anemia adiantifolia Anemia wrightii	John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers