''Culcita'' is a genus of ferns, native to the

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. It is the only genus in the family Culcitaceae in the

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classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Culcitoideae of a very broadly defined family

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, the placement used for the genus in ''

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Species

Only two species are known:

References

Cyatheales Fern genera {{Cyatheales-stub