Translingual

Proper noun

Polypodiales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Pteridopsida – the polypod and many other ferns.

Hypernyms

• (order): Plantae - kingdom; Tracheophyta - phylum; Pteridophyta - division; Polypodiopsida - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Saccolomataceae, Lonchitidaceae, Cystodiaceae, Lindsaeaceae, Pteridaceae, Dennstaedtiaceae - families; eupolypods I, eupolypods II - clades

See also

Obsolete families formerly within Polypodiales

• Drynariaceae (now Drynarieae), Grammitidaceae (now grammitids), Gymnogrammitidaceae (sole genus Gymnogrammatis), Loxogrammaceae (now Loxogrammeae), Platyceriaceae (now Platycerioideae), Pleurosoriopsidaceae - now type species Pleurosoriopsis in Polypodiaceae
• Nephrolepidaceae - type genus Nephrolepis now in Lomariopsidaceae
• Vittariaceae - type genus Vittaria now in Pteridaceae