Does Dryopteris or Adenanthos have more species?
Dryopteris Dryopteris , commonly called wood fern, male fern (referring in particular to "Dryopteris filix-mas"), or buckler fern, is a genus of about 250 species of ferns with distribution in Eastern Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific islands, with the highest species diversity in eastern Asia. Many of the species have stout, slowly creeping rootstocks that form a crown, with a vase-like ring of fronds. The sori are round, with a peltate indusium. The stipes have prominent scales.
Dryopteridoideae Dryopteridoideae is one of the two subfamilies of the Dryopteridaceae family of ferns. (The other subfamily is Elaphoglossoideae.) Dryopteridoideae contains about 17 genera.