Filix is an obsolete fern genus. Its takes its name from the Latin word filix, which means "fern."


Filix Ség. 1754 (nom. rej.)

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Jean François Séguier (1703-1784), in Plantae Veronenses 3: 53. 1754.

Filix Ség. 1754 nom. rej. = Dryopteris Adans. 1763

Filix Hill 1755

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John Hill (1716-1775), in Family Herbal 171. 1755

Filix Ludw. 1757

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Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (1709-1773) in Institutiones Historico-Physicae Regni Vegetabilis. Edition 2. Leipzig, 1757.

Filix Ludw. 1757 = Cystopteris Bernh. 1805

  • Filix aquilina Woyn. in Hedwigia 56(5): 383. 1915
  • Filix bulbifera (L.) Underw. 1900 = Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh. 1805

Filix Adans. 1763 nom. illeg.

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Michel Adanson, (1727-1806), in Familles des Plantes (Adanson), 1763

Filix Farw. 1916

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Oliver Atkins Farwell (1867-1944), in:

  • Report (Annual) of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters [Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci.]
  • Filix filix-mas (L.) Farw. 6: 201. 1904 = Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott 1834
  • Filix ampla Farw. 18: 81. 1916 = Ctenitis ampla (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Ching 1940
  • Filix aquilonaris Farw. 18: 81. 1916
  • Filix boottii Farw. 18: 81. 1916
  • Filix cristata Farw. 18: 81. 1916
  • Filix montana Farw. 18: 82. 1916
  • Filix oregana Farw. 18: 82. 1916
  • Filix patens (Sw.) Farw. 18: 82. 1916
  • Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters [Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci.]
  • American Midland Naturalist [Amer. Midl. Naturalist]

Farwell's Filix species

  • Filix benedictii Farw. in Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2. 14. 1922
  • Filix dowellii Farw. in Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2. 14. 1922
  • Filix × benedictii Farw. in Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2. 15. 1923
  • Filix filix-mas var. paleacea (Sw.) Farw. in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 12: 254. 1931