BLECHNACEAE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Blechnaceae mean?
• BLECHNACEAE (noun)
The noun BLECHNACEAE has 1 sense:
1. one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia
Familiarity information: BLECHNACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLECHNACEAE (noun)
Meaning:
One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae
Hypernyms ("Blechnaceae" is a kind of...):
fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Blechnaceae"):
Blechnum; genus Blechnum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns)
Doodia; genus Doodia (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia)
genus Sadleria; Sadleria (low tree ferns with large fronds; in rain forests and on lava flows of Hawaiian Islands)
genus Stenochlaena; Stenochlaena (large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia)
genus Woodwardia; Woodwardia (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns)
Holonyms ("Blechnaceae" is a member of...):
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)
