A study on the ferns flora in Fengyangshan Nature Reserve in Zhejiang Province

The pteridophytic flora of the Fengyangshan Nature Reserve of Zhejiang Province is composed of 196 species and 7 varieties, 74 genera and 37 families. The representative families are Dryopteridaceae, Polypodiaceae, Thelypteridaceae, Athyriaceae, Aspleniaceae, Selaginellaceae and Hymenophyllaceae. The main genera are Dryopteris, Asplenium, Selaginella, Arachniodes, Plagiogyria, Pteris and Lepisorus. The top families’ distribution types are cosmopolitan and pantropic ones; the main genera’s are pantropical ones, while the species distribution type is belong to the East Asia one and represented to the feature of subtropics transition to warm temperated area type. In the 6 reservations, the genetic relationship of Fengyangshan Nature Reserve’s ferns is intimate to Jiulongshan Nature Reserve’s . There are 57 species endemic to China in Fengyangshan Nature Reserve.