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Ribbonlike spikemoss and delicate polypodies crept neatly over rock faces.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2019

Their stipes are not jointed to the root stock, nor are their sori at the ends of the veins as in the polypodies.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry

The beech ferns are often classed with the polypodies, because, like them, they have no indusium; but in other ways they are more akin to the wood ferns.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry

It grows just it the spray of a waterfall—this and this; they are polypodies.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Often called "Limestone Polypody," the beech ferns having formerly been classed with the polypodies.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry