Athyriaceae Alston, 1956

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Zhang, Xian-Chun & Schneider, Harald, 2011, A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns, Phytotaxa 19, pp. 7-54 : 16

Family 40. Athyriaceae Alston , Taxon 5: 25 (1956).

5 genera. ( Anisocampium , Athyrium , Cornopteris , Deparia , Diplazium )

Reference: Kato (1977), Wang et al. (2004).

The Athyriaceae include the majority of genera placed by Smith et al. (2006a, 2008) in Woodsiaceae . The generic classification will need further study especially in the context of the monophyly of Athyrium and Diplazium .