Ctenopteris

Ctenopteris is a defunct genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae. The name is derived from two Greek words: "ktenos", "comb", and "pteris", "fern".
The name "Ctenopteris" can no longer be used because its type species, "Ctenopteris venulosa" has been transferred to "Prosaptia". Because "Ctenopteris" is polyphyletic, some of its species were not transferred to "Prosaptia" with the type species. For these, the name "Ctenopteris" was used provisionally, pending their reassignment to other genera.
Edwin Bingham Copeland wrote extensively on "Ctenopteris" in the 1940s and 1950s. As he defined it, the genus was broadly distributed in the southern hemisphere including Australia, New Zealand, southern Asia and southern Africa.