organisms
 see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
  
 Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
    
 Kingdom Plantae Haeckel (1866) - plants
      
 Subkingdom Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Sm. (1981) - green plants
 see [unranked] Viridiplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981
        
 Land plants
          
 Phylum Pteridophyta Schimp. (1879)
 see Phylum Filicinophyta
            
 leptosporangiates - leptosporangiate ferns
              
 Order Filicales Dumort. (1829), nom. illeg.
 see Order Polypodiales Link (1833)
                
 01 Family †Botryopteridaceae Renault ex D.H.Scott (1900), nom. illeg.
 see Family Botryopteridiaceae Doweld (2001)
                
 02 Family †Anachoropteridaceae P. Bertrand
 see Family Psalixochlaenaceae Holmes (1981)
                
 03 Family †Kaplanopteridaceae A.M.F. Tomescu, G.W.Rothwell & M.L. Trivett (2006)
                
 04 Family †Psalixochlaenaceae Holmes (1981)
                
 05 Family †Sermayaceae Eggert & Delevoryas (1967), nom. cons. prop.
                
 06 Family †Tedeleaceae D.A.Eggert & T.N.Taylor
                
 07 Family †Skaaripteridaceae Galtier & T.N.Taylor (1994)
                
 08 Family †Tempskyaceae C.B.Read & R.W.Br. ex C.F.Reed (1948)
                
 09 Family Schizaeaceae Kaulf. (1827)
                
 10 Family Hymenophyllaceae Mart. (1835) - filmy ferns
                
 11 Family Gleicheniaceae C.Presl (1825) - forking ferns
                
 12 Family Dicksoniaceae M.R.Schomb. (1848), nom. cons. - dicksonioids
                
 13 Family Cyatheaceae Kaulf. (1827) - scaly tree ferns
                
 14 Family Matoniaceae C.Presl (1847) - matonioids
                
 15 Family Loxsomataceae C.Presl (1847)
                
 16 Family Dipteridaceae Seward & E.Dale (1901)