Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Plantae (kingdom)
7. Pteridophyta (division)
8. Polypodiopsida (class)

Narrower term/s

• Aspleniaceae (family)[+]
  • Asplenium (genus) [+]
    • Asplenium scolopendrium (species)
• Dryopteridaceae (family)[+]
  • Dryopteris (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Order including the major lineages of polypod ferns, 80% of today's fern species found in most parts of the world including tropical, semitropical, and temperate areas. Characteristics include sporangia with a vertical annulus interrupted by the stalk and stomium; indusia laterally or centrally attached (or lost); gametophytes green, chordate, and surficial.