Microlepia C.Presl

Plants terrestrial, medium-sized. Rhizome creeping, siphonostelic, covered with multicellular grayish stiff hairs, without scales. Fronds medium-sized to large, stipe base without articulation, hairy, vertically grooved above; lamina 1-4-pinnately compound, oblong to ovate-oblong; pinnules or lobes slightly oblique, acroscopic pinnule at base larger than basiscopic, usually parallel to rachis or pinna rachis, mostly triangular, rarely lanceolate, usually grayish hispid or with soft hairs, especially on rachis and pinna rachis. Veins free, pinnately branching, veinlets not reaching margin. Sori orbicular, intramarginal (slightly farther from margin), terminal on one veinlet, usually near notch; indusium hemitelioid, fixed at base and both sides, opening toward margin, truncate above, or indusium orbicular-reniform, basifixed; stalk short; annulus erect, cut off by sporangiophore at base. Spore tetrahedral, glabrous or slightly verrucate.