Ctenitis

Ctenitis is a fern genus in the family Dryopteridaceae, subfamily Dryopteridoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).^[1]

Ctenitis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Polypodiineae
Family:	Dryopteridaceae
Subfamily:	Dryopteridoideae
Genus:	Ctenitis (C.Chr.) C.Chr.[1]
Synonyms[2]
Ataxipteris Holttum Dryopteris subg. Ctenitis C.Chr. Pseudotectaria Tardieu

Selected species

The genus has a large number of species. The PPG I classification suggested that there were about 125 species;^[1] as of February 2020^[update], the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World listed 143.^[2]

• Ctenitis pallatangana (Hook.) Ching
• Ctenitis sloanei (Poepp. ex Spreng.) Morton
• Ctenitis squamigera (Brack.) Copel.