Region: east Asia, China, New Guinea, Pacific.
Habitat: near streams; forested areas.
Genera • Diplaziopsis, 3 species.
• Homalosorus, 1 species.
BotanyFerns: medium to large.
Root: rhizomes are thick and decumbent to erect.
TaxonomyIn the Pteridophyte
Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 the family is placed in the suborder Aspleniineae, and includes two genera. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Diplaziopsidoideae of a very broadly defined family
Aspleniaceae.