1. Osmundaceae Family “The Royal Fern Family” (AKA “The Cinnamon Fern Family”)
By: Levi Eggermont

2. Family Notes 3 genera, 16-36 species.
Herbs with upright aerial or horizontal subterranean, dichotomously branched stems; scales absent.
Leaves alternate, large, one or more times pinnate, either dimorphic, or some leaves differentiated into fertile and sterile segments.
Sporangia large and stalked.

3. Osmunda cinnomonea (Cinnamon Fern)

4. Distribution of Osmunda cinnomonea

5. Osmunda claytoniana (Interrupted Fern)

6. Distribution of Osmunda claytoniana

7. sources
Vascular Plant Taxonomy, Fourth edition. Walters, Dirk. Keil, David Pg. 99.