Subfamily 42a. Dryopteridoideae B.K.Nayar, Taxon 19: 235 (1970).

( Acrophorus, Acrorumohra, Arachniodes, Ctenitis, Cyrtogonellum, Cyrtomidictyum, Cyrtomium, Diacalpe, Dryopolystichum, Dryopsis, Dryopteris, Leptorumohra, Lithostegia, Peranema, Phanerophlebia, Polystichopsis, Polystichum).