The
forked ferns are the
family Gleicheniaceae. They are sometimes – like all
ferns – placed in an infradivision
Monilophytes of
subdivision Euphyllophytina, allowing for more precise
phylogenetic arrangement of the
tracheophytes. More conventionally, the name
Pteridophyta, ranked as a division, is used in lieu of the Monilophytes. The formerly independent families Dicranopteridaceae and Stromatopteridaceae are nowadays generally included in the Gleicheniaceae, whereas the
Dipteridaceae and
Matoniaceae, though closely related, are considered spearate families by most authors.
