See text Schizaeaceae is a family of ferns in the order Schizaeales.

In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it includes only two genera.

[1] Alternatively, two families kept separate in PPG I, Lygodiaceae and Anemiaceae, may be included in Schizaeaceae (as the subfamilies Lygodioideae and Anemioideae)[2] so that the family has four genera.

[3][4] In this approach, the Schizaeaceae of PPG I is treated as the subfamily Schizaeoideae.

[2] Species are mainly distributed in the tropics, but several are found in temperate regions in North America, South Africa, Australasia and Northeast Asia.