Didymochlaena Desv.

Rhizome massive, erect, bearing a group of fronds resembling a small tree fern; apex of rhizome and base of stipes densely covered with shining red-brown broadly basally attached scales and fine red brown hairs. Leaves bipinnate; pinnae jointed to the rhachis; pinnules very uniform, not further divided, joint to the rhachis, rectangularly elliptic resembling those of Lindsaea; a group of scales and/or hairs at the base of each pinnule; veins forked 1-3 times. Sori terminal on the acroscopic branch of a vein, receptacle and indusium elongate, like a long Dryopteris indusium; indusium attached longitudinally.

Uses Cultivated as an ornamental.