Doodia

Doodia
Doodia caudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pteridophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
(unranked):	Eupolypods II
Family:	Blechnaceae Newman 1844
Genus:	Doodia R. Br. 1810

Doodia is a genus of ferns in the Blechnaceae family, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida. It is named after Samuel Doody (1656-1706), an English botanist. Distribution of the genus includes parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Phylogenic studies have found Doodia to be embedded within the paraphyletic genus Blechnum. Christenhusz et al., 2011, therefore reassigned the Doodia species to Blechnum.

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