Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) M.G.Price

Rhizome c. 1 mm thick, long-creeping, phyllopods 0.8-2.5 cm apart, buds about halfway along the internodes. Anatomy: vascular strands 3 or 4, sclerenchyma sheath distinct, sclerenchyma strand single, central. Rhizome scales spreading, peltate, up to 1 by 0.8 mm, ciliate, acumen very short, central region brown, margin lighter. Fronds strongly dimorphic, short-stalked. Fertile fronds with stalks up to 0.5(-1) mm long, lamina (2.5-)4-16(-25) by 0.3-1.5 cm, linear. Sterile fronds with lamina 1-7 by 1-2 cm, index 1-6, widest at or above the middle. Venation: veins not distinct in the mesh of anastomosing veinlets, free veinlets simple or forked, recurrent. Hydathodes absent. Stellate hairs monomorphic, forming a sparse mat, hyaline, the rays acicular. Coenosorus apical or extending to the base of the lamina, submarginal. Sporangia long-stalked, paraphyses with straight rays. Spores tuberculate and with conical warts.