Anemia (plant)

Anemia
Mexican flowering fern (A. mexicana)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Schizaeales
Family:	Anemiaceae Link
Genus:	Anemia Sw.
Type species
Anemia phyllitidis (L.) Sw.
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Anemiaebotrys Fee 1869 Anemidictyon Smith 1841 ex Hook. 1842 Anemirhiza Smith 1855 Colina Greene 1893 Coptophyllum Gardner 1842 non Korth. 1850 Cryptophyllum Schlechtendahl 1843 Hemianemia (Prantl 1881) Reed 1948 Mohria Swartz 1806 non Britton 1893 Ornithopteris Bernhardi 1805 non (Agardh 1839) Smith 1875 Spathepteris Presl 1846 Trochopteris Gardner 1842

Anemia is a genus of ferns. It is the only genus in the family Anemiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).^[1] Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Anemioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae,^[2] the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019^[update].^[3] Its species are sometimes called flowering ferns, but this term is more commonly applied to ferns of the genus Osmunda. Fronds are dimorphic; in fertile fronds, the two lowermost pinnae are highly modified to bear the sporangia.

Ferns in this genus have chromosome numbers based on x=38: n=38, 76, 114.^{[citation needed]}