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|accepted_name=Woodwardia
|accepted_authority=Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|place=5: 411. 1793 Chain fern [in honor of Thomas Jenkin. 1745
|year=1745
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|common_names=Chain fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Anchistea
|authority=C. Presl
|rank=genus
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|name=Lorinseria
|authority=C. Presl
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Blechnaceae;Woodwardia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Blechnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Woodwardia]]</div></div>
|etymology=in honor of Thomas Jenkin 1820, English botanist
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form or habitat;whole_organism growth form or habitat;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>terrestrial or rarely on rock.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem size;stem growth form"><b>Stems </b>long-creeping to erect, slender to stout, not climbing;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="scale coloration">scales brown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf arrangement or growth form;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>monomorphic (dimorphic in 1 species), clustered or well separated.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape"><b>Blades </b>pinnate or pinnatifid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="rachis architecture or pubescence;costa architecture or pubescence"><b>Rachises </b>and costae scaly.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="vein architecture;vein architecture;leaf reproduction;leaf reproduction;series architecture;species quantity"><b>Veins </b>anastomosing in both sterile and fertile leaves, forming a regular series of areoles along costae and costules, further anastomosing in 1 species.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="sorus fusion;row shape"><b>Sori </b>discrete, in chainlike rows along costae or costules, extending only the length of individual areolar veins.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="perine architecture or shape"><b>Spores </b>with perine irregularly folded.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="x chromosome quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 34, 35.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Central America;Mediterranean Europe;e Asia
|discussion=<p>Woodwardia radicans (Linnaeus) Smith has been reported as an escape from cultivation in Florida and in the Sierra Nevada in California; it has not persisted. It and the commonly cultivated Woodwardia unigemmata Makino resemble Woodwardia fimbriata Smith, but both W. radicans and W. unigemmata are distinguished by having a scaly bulblet near the apex of the leaf.</p><!--
--><p>Species 14 (3 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves strongly dimorphic; sterile blades ± pinnatifid, with 2 or more rows of areoles between costae and margin, veins free only at margin.
|[[Woodwardia areolata|Woodwardia areolata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves ± monomorphic; sterile blades pinnate, with 1 row of areoles adjacent to costae or costules, veins free to margin.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stems forming stout caudex covered with petiole bases, suberect; petioles straw-colored and densely covered with orangish scales at base; pinnae not articulate to rachis.
|[[Woodwardia fimbriata|Woodwardia fimbriata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stems relatively slender to ca. 1 cm diam., long- creeping; petioles blackish and glabrate at base; pinnae articulate to rachis.
|[[Woodwardia virginica|Woodwardia virginica]]
|}
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name=Woodwardia
|author=Raymond B. Cranfill
|authority=Smith
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Anchistea;Lorinseria
|basionyms=
|family=Blechnaceae
|distribution=North America;Central America;Mediterranean Europe;e Asia
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=1745
|special status=
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|genus=Woodwardia
|blade shape=pinnatifid;pinnate
|costa architecture or pubescence=scaly
|leaf architecture=monomorphic
|leaf arrangement=separated
|leaf arrangement or growth form=clustered
|leaf reproduction=fertile;sterile
|perine architecture or shape=folded
|rachis architecture or pubescence=scaly
|row shape=chainlike
|scale coloration=brown
|series architecture=regular
|sorus fusion=discrete
|species quantity=1
|stem growth form=not climbing
|stem orientation=long-creeping;erect
|stem size=slender;stout
|vein architecture=anastomosing;anastomosing
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism growth form or habitat=rarely;terrestrial
|x chromosome quantity=35;34
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