Paesia A.St.-hil.

Genus

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Dennstaedtiaceae

Characteristics

Plants terrestrial. Rhizome long creeping, with castaneous hairs, without scales. Fronds distant, long stipitate; stipe with only 1 vascular bundle; lamina pinnate, thinly leathery; rachis often zigzag, flexuous, ciliate. Sori submarginal, on a vascular commissure joining apices of veins; indusia double, formed by two layers, outer layer false, formed by reflexed edge of lamina, inner layer true, not conspicuous; annulus consisting of (12-)17-20 incrassate cells; spores monolete, smooth as if polished. x = 13.
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Sori marginal, finally continuous along seg.; protected by scarious margin and by a true indusium. Spores bilateral, smooth. Rhizome far-creeping, solenostelic, hairy. Fronds finely dissected, axes us. rough, rhachis us. zigzag; veins free except among sori. Terrestrial ferns with about 12 spp. of tropical America, Tahiti, Luzon, Sumatra, N.Z.
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