- = Polypodium sect. Phlebodium R.Br. in Bennett et al., Pl. Jav. Rar. 1, 4 (1838)
Epiphytic or rupestral ferns. Rhizomes long-creeping, terete, lacking cavities, not pruinose, scaly. Rhizome scales non-clathrate, squarrose. Fronds monomorphic, articulated to rhizome. Laminae undivided to deeply pinnatifid or pinnatisect, herbaceous to coriaceous, usually glabrous. Veins reticulate, forming 1 to several series of areoles between costa and lobe margin; areoles with 1 or 2 included veinlets, except for 1 row bordering the costa; hydathodes absent. Sori round, superficial, in 1 to several rows either side of midrib, served by 2 veins in each areole, not confluent with age, occurring throughout the lamina; paraphyses absent; exindusiate. Spores monolete, bilaterally symmetrical, verrucate to tuberculate.
A genus of 4 species (PPG 1 2016).
A small genus confined to the New World tropics and subtropics (Mickel & Smith 2004). One species casual in New Zealand.
Category | Number |
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Exotic: Casual | 1 |
Total | 1 |