Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.) E.G.Andrews & Windham

Rhizome c. 1.5 mm in diameter, set with subulate, entire, brown rhizome-scales with a dark clathrate area basally, up to 3 mm long. Fronds usually spaced 10 mm apart; stipe up to 60 mm long, covered at first with ovate to lanceolate scales up to 2 mm long; lamina lanceolate-oblong, up to 150 x 55 mm, pinnatifid to near midrib into linear, entire to slightly sinuate lobes up to 25 x 4 mm, upper surface glabrous, lower surface covered with circular to broadly lanceolate, grey scales up to 1 mm long, with a dark centre at maturity. Sori submarginal, up to 12 per lobe, usually produced in upper half of lobe, 1-1.5 mm in diameter.