Tags: Fern.
Llavea cordifolia is a fern the sole species of its genus. It is often cultivated as an ornamental foliage plant. The genus was named in honour of Pablo de La Llave a Mexican naturalist.Recent cladistic studies have shown that this genus forms a natural group with Cryptogramma and Coniogramme a group that is sister to all the other pteridoid ferns. This group has been published as the Cryptogrammoideae one of five subfamilies of the Pteridaceae.
