Neocheiropteris Christ

Plants terrestrial, medium-sized. Rhizome long creeping, rather thick, densely scaly; scales brown, iridescent, clathrate, ovate-lanceolate, margin dentate. Fronds distant. Stipe stramineous, longer than lamina; lamina trifid, or palmately lobed, base attenuate, middle segment longer; segments lanceolate, papery, glabrous, with small brown scales when young, margin entire; main veins raised, small veinlets obscure. Sori oblong to elongate, parallel to costa; paraphyses present, clathrate and peltate. Spores verrucate.