User:Nonenmac/Aspidium

Aspidium is a fern genus in the Dryopteridaceae (wood fern) family. Although the genus name itself it is now generally considered to be obsolete and a synonym for Tectaria (in the Tectariaceae family), Aspidium's former species have been placed in several other families and genera.

The name aspidium is also used in referring to a medicine, usually in the form of an oleoresin extract, containing filicin, made from the rhizomes and stipes of certain former Aspidium species such as Dryopteris filix-mas (male fern), and Dryopteris marginalis (marginal fern). These medicines have been used in the treatment of tapeworm infection, but their use is limited to otherwise-untreatable cases due to the toxicity of the medication. Safer drugs such as dichlorophen, niclosamide, and quinacrine are preferred.

Species
Most Aspidium species have been recategorized into other genera, including:

in family Aspleniaceae

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in family Dryopteridaceae

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 * genus Ctenitis
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 * genus Didymochlaena


 * genus Dryopteris


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 * genus Polystichum


 * genus Stigmatopteris
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in family Elaphoglossaceae

 * genus Lastreopsis

in family Metaxyaceae

 * genus Metaxya
 * Aspidium rostratum = Metaxya rostrata''

in family Oleandraceae

 * genus Oleandra
 * Aspidium articulatum    = Oleandra articulata
 * Aspidium nodosum     = Oleandra articulata

in family Tectariaceae

 * genus Tectaria 
 * Aspidium braunianum = Tectaria brauniana
 * Aspidium costaricanum = Tectaria athyrioides
 * Aspidium draconopterum = Tectaria draconoptera
 * Aspidium endresii = Tectaria nicaraguensis
 * Aspidium eurylobum = Tectaria nicotianifolia
 * Aspidium fimbriatum = Tectaria fimbriata
 * Aspidium heracleifolium = Tectaria heracleifolia
 * Aspidium latifolium = Tectaria mexicana
 * Aspidium macrophyllum
 * var. biolleyanum = Tectaria vivipara
 * var. pittieri = Tectaria incisa
 * Aspidium martinicense = Tectaria incisa
 * Aspidium myriosorum = Tectaria draconoptera
 * Aspidium nicaraguense = Tectaria nicaraguensis
 * Aspidium nicotianifolium = Tectaria nicotianifolia
 * Aspidium orosiensis = Tectaria antioquoiana
 * Aspidium plantagineum = Tectaria plantaginea
 * Aspidium rivale = Tectaria rivalis
 * Aspidium rufovillosum = Tectaria rufovillosa
 * Aspidium subebeneum = Tectaria subebenea
 * Aspidium trifoliatum
 * ssp.heracleifolium = Tectaria heracleifolia var. heracleifolia


 * genus Triplophyllum 
 * Aspidium funestum = Triplophyllum funestum

in family Thelypteridaceae

 * genus ''Thelypteris|(Willd.) K. Iwats. 1963}}