The following genera of Cheilanthoideae are recognized by the
Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, which incorporates the arrangements of the hemionitid ferns published in Schuettpelz et al. 2025. That arrangement separated a number of genera from
Cheilanthes s.l. and
Pellaea s.l., and subsumed
Mildella and
Oeosporangium, formerly a Eurasian segregate of
Cheilanthes, under
Aleuritopteris. •
Adiantopsis Fée •
Aleuritopteris Fée •
Anthonya Windham & Pryer •
Argyrochosma (J.Sm.) Windham •
Aspidotis (Nutt. ex Hooker) Copel. •
Astrolepis D.M.Benham & Windham •
Baja Windham & L.O.George •
Brasiliopteris J.Prado, Schuettp. & Yatsk. •
Bommeria E.Fourn. •
Calciphilopteris Yesilyurt & H.Schneid. •
Carlottahallia Windham •
Cheilanthes Sw. (
nom. cons.) •
Cheiloplecton Fée •
Choristosoria Kuhn •
Christenhuszia Windham & Pryer •
Doryopteris J.Sm. (
nom. cons.) •
Estrella Windham •
Gaga Pryer, F.W. Li & Windham •
Hemionitis L. •
Lytoneuron (Klotzsch) Yesilyurt •
Mineirella Ponce & Scataglini •
Myriopteris Fée •
Namaquapteris Windham & Pryer •
Notholaena R.Br. •
Ormopteris J.Sm. •
Paragymnopteris K.H.Shing •
Parahemionitis Panigrahi •
Pellaea Link (
nom. cons.) •
Pellaeopsis J.Sm. •
Pentagramma Yatsk., Windham & E.Wollenw. •
Quechuapteris Windham •
Trachypteris André ex Christ. •
Ynesmexia Fauskee & Windham Some other genera that have been included in the subfamily (or split off from genera included in the subfamily) are: •
Allosorus Bernh. (
nom. rej.) – not included by Christenhusz et al. (2011); accepted in PPG I. The type was subsequently discovered to belong to
Cryptogramma and the name has been formally suppressed. •
Mickelopteris Fraser-Jenk. – rendered unnecessary by conservation of
Asplenium arifolium as a new type, so now a synonym of
Parahemionitis. •
Mildella Trev. – subsumed in
Aleuritopteris by Schuettpelz et al. •
Oeosporangium Vis. – considered a synonym of
Allosorus in PPG I, subsequently accepted for a group of largely European species and then subsumed in
Aleuritopteris by Schuettpelz et al. •
Pteridella Mett. ex Kuhn – accepted by Christenhusz & Chase (2014); considered a synonym of
Pellaeopsis by
World Ferns. •
Sericopteris Jing Zhao, X.M.Zhou & Z.R.He – published in 2025 to resolve the polyphyly of
Paragymnopteris Other sources take a radically different approach. ,
Plants of the World Online places all of the possible genera of the Cheilanthoideae in the single genus
Hemionitis. While much work remains to be done in delineating monophyletic genera in the cheilanthoids (
Cheilanthes,
Doryopteris and
Pellaea remaining notably polyphyletic), several major clades have been consistently recovered in phylogenetic analyses and given informal names, as shown here: }} ==References==