genus Doryopteris

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genus Doryopteris - small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family AdiantaceaeDoryopterisfern genus - genera of ferns and fern alliesfamily Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdividedDoryopteris pedata, hand fern - tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds