Osmundastrum C.Presl

Plants terrestrial, moderate-sized to large. Rhizome erect, stout, woody, without scales. Fronds dimorphic; stipes arising as a crown at apex of rhizome, ± hairy when young, base of stipe swollen and with lateral flaplike stipules; lamina pinnate-pinnatisect, fertile portions reduced to a midrib with almost no lamina present; pinnae articulate to rachis. Sporangia large, naked, with a small patch annulus. 2n = 44.