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Athyriaceae Alston. Common name: Lady Fern Family.
A family of 3-5 genera and about 650 species, subcosmopolitan in distribution.
References: Christenhusz, Zhang, & Schneider (2011); PPG I (2016); Wang, He, & Kato in FoC (2013); Wei et al. (2018). Show full citations.
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