舌蕨亚科 she jue ya ke

Authors: Prof. Fuwu Xing, Wang Faguo, Shiyong Dong, Kunio Iwatsuki, John T. Mickel, Masahiro Kato & Michael G. Gilbert

Fronds weakly to strongly dimorphic. Sporangia evenly covering fertile parts of fronds abaxially.

About eight genera and 700 species: nearly cosmopolitan, but highest diversity found in the New World; four genera and 34 species (16 endemic) in China.

Subfamily Elaphoglossoideae as defined here is supported as monophyletic by both molecular and morphological evidence.

Lower Taxa

• Bolbitis Schott
• Elaphoglossum Schott ex J. Smith
• Lomagramma J. Smith
• Teratophyllum Mettenius ex Kuhn