Subfamily
Dryopteridoideae
Polystichum californicum × munitum. Photo: (c) John Rusk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Dryopteridoideae is one of the two subfamilies of the Dryopteridaceae family of ferns. (The other subfamily is Elaphoglossoideae.) Dryopteridoideae contains about 17 genera.