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| image = Athyrium filix-femina0.jpg
| image_caption = ''Athyrium filix-femina''
| taxon = Athyrium
| authority = [[Albrecht Wilhelm Roth|Roth]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
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[[Image:Illustration Athyrium filix-femina0.jpg|thumb|19th century illustration of ''A. filix-femina'']]

'''''Athyrium''''' ('''lady-fern''') is a genus of about 180 species of terrestrial [[fern]]s, with a [[cosmopolitan distribution]].  It is placed in the family [[Athyriaceae]], in the order [[Polypodiales]].<ref name=Smith-2006/><ref name=Christenhusz-2011/>
Its genus name is from Greek ''[[Privative a|a-]]'' ('without') and Latinized Greek ''[[thureos]]'' ('shield'), describing its inconspicuous [[indusium]] (sorus' covering).<ref name="Georgia">{{cite book|author1=Lloyd H. Snyder, Jr.|author2=James G. Bruce|title=Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=n1iTLCVYcksC|page=114}}|accessdate=26 September 2013|date=1 October 1986|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2385-5|page=114}}</ref>
The common name "lady fern" refers in particular to the [[common lady fern]].<ref>Entry "lady fern", ''New Oxford American Dictionary 3rd edition'' (2010) by Oxford University Press, Inc.</ref>

''Athyrium'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species including [[Small Angle Shades]] and ''[[Sthenopis auratus]]''.

==Species==
There are about 180, including:

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*''[[Athyrium adpressum]]''
*''[[Athyrium alpestre]]''
*''[[Athyrium angustum]]''
*''[[Athyrium anisopterum]]''
*''[[Athyrium araiostegioides]]''
*''[[Athyrium arisanense]]''
*''[[Athyrium asplenioides]]''
*''[[Athyrium atkinsonii]]''
*''[[Athyrium attenuatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium auriculatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium austro-orientale]]''
*''[[Athyrium austro-yunnanense]]''
*''[[Athyrium biseralatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium bomicola]]''
*''[[Athyrium brevifrons]]''
*''[[Athyrium brevisorum]]''
*''[[Athyrium bucahwangense]]''
*''[[Athyrium caudipinna]]''
*''[[Athyrium chingianum]]''
*''[[Athyrium christensenii]]''
*''[[Athyrium clarkei]]''
*''[[Athyrium clivicola]]''
*''[[Athyrium criticum]]''
*''[[Athyrium cryptogrammoides]]''
*''[[Athyrium delavayi]]''
*''[[Athyrium delicatulum]]''
*''[[Athyrium densisorum]]''
*''[[Athyrium dentilobum]]''
*''[[Athyrium devolii]]''
*''[[Athyrium dissitifolium]]''
*''[[Athyrium distentifolium]]''
*''[[Athyrium drepanopterum]]''
*''[[Athyrium dubium]]''
*''[[Athyrium duthiei]]''
*''[[Athyrium epirachis]]''
*''[[Athyrium erithrocaulon]]''
*''[[Athyrium erythropodum]]''
*''[[Athyrium fallaciosum]]''
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*''[[Athyrium fangii]]''
*''[[Athyrium filix-femina]]''
*''[[Athyrium fimbriatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium fissum]]''
*''[[Athyrium flabellulatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium flavicoma]]''
*''[[Athyrium flexile]]''
*''[[Athyrium fragile]]''
*''[[Athyrium fujianense]]''
*''[[Athyrium giganteum]]''
*''[[Athyrium goeringianum]]''
*''[[Athyrium guangnanense]]''
*''[[Athyrium haleakalae]]
*''[[Athyrium himalaicum]]''
*''[[Athyrium hirtirachis]]''
*''[[Athyrium huhsienense]]''
*''[[Athyrium imbricatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium iseanum]]''
*''[[Athyrium kanghsienense]]''
*''[[Athyrium kenzo-satakei]]''
*''[[Athyrium kuratae]]''
*''[[Athyrium leiopodum]]''
*''[[Athyrium liangwangshanicum]]''
*''[[Athyrium mackinnonii]]''
*''[[Athyrium macrocarpum]]''
*''[[Athyrium medium]]''
*''[[Athyrium medogense]]''
*''[[Athyrium melanolepis]]''
*''[[Athyrium mengtzeense]]''
*''[[Athyrium multidentatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium nakanoi]]''
*''[[Athyrium nephrodioides]]''
*''[[Athyrium nigripes]]''
*''[[Athyrium niponicum]]''
*''[[Athyrium nyalamense]]''
*''[[Athyrium oppositipinnum]]''
*''[[Athyrium otophorum]]''
*''[[Athyrium pachyphlebium]]''
*''[[Athyrium pachyphyllum]]''
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*''[[Athyrium pachysorum]]''
*''[[Athyrium parapellucidum]]''
*''[[Athyrium pectinatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium pellucidum]]''
*''[[Athyrium pseudo-filix-femina]]''
*''[[Athyrium pubicostatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium rachidosorum]]''
*''[[Athyrium reflexipinnum]]''
*''[[Athyrium roseum]]''
*''[[Athyrium rotundilobum]]''
*''[[Athyrium rubripes]]''
*''[[Athyrium rupicola]]''
*''[[Athyrium sessile]]''
*''[[Athyrium sikkimense]]''
*''[[Athyrium silvicolum]]''
*''[[Athyrium sinense]]''
*''[[Athyrium stenopodum]]''
*''[[Athyrium strigillosum]]''
*''[[Athyrium submacrocarpum]]''
*''[[Athyrium subrigescens]]''
*''[[Athyrium supraspinescens]]''
*''[[Athyrium tenuicaule]]''
*''[[Athyrium tenuifolium]]''
*''[[Athyrium tibeticum]]''
*''[[Athyrium tozanense]]''
*''[[Athyrium vidalii]]''
*''[[Athyrium tripinnatum]]''
*''[[Athyrium viviparum]]''
*''[[Athyrium wallichianum]]''
*''[[Athyrium wardii]]''
*''[[Athyrium wuliangshanense]]''
*''[[Athyrium yokoscense]]''
*''[[Athyrium yui]]''
*''[[Athyrium yunnanense]]''
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=Smith-2006>{{cite journal
 |author1=Alan R. Smith 
 |author2=Kathleen M. Pryer 
 |author3=Eric Schuettpelz 
 |author4=Petra Korall 
 |author5=Harald Schneider 
 |author6=Paul G. Wolf 
 |year=2006 
 |title=A classification for extant ferns 
 |journal=Taxon 
 |volume=55 
 |issue=3 
 |pages=705–731 
 |url=http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf 
 |doi=10.2307/25065646 
 |deadurl=yes 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226232147/http://www.pryerlab.net/publication/fichier749.pdf 
 |archivedate=2008-02-26 
 |df= 
}}</ref>

<ref name=Christenhusz-2011>{{cite journal 
|author=Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider 
|year=2011 
|title=A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns 
|journal=[[Phytotaxa]]|volume=19|pages=7–54 
|url=http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2011/f/pt00019p054.pdf}}</ref>}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=3&start_taxon_id=103074 Flora of China]
*[http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Athyrium+&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= Flora Europaea]
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=103074 Flora of North America]

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[[Category:Athyriaceae]]
[[Category:Pteridophyta genera]]


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