Pyrrosia stigmosa (Sw.) Ching

Rhizome 4-4.5 mm thick, shortly elongated, phyllopods 1-2 cm apart, buds at the base of the phyllopods. Anatomy: vascular strands 7-13, ground tissue completely sclerified. Rhizome scales spreading, basifixed, 2.6-6 by 0.9-1.6 mm, dentate or with entire acumen, brown. Fronds monomorphic, stalked, stalk 3-24(-37) cm, 0.2-0.7 as long as the lamina, lamina 11-48 by 1.5-5.2 cm, index 4-13, base cuneate, widest near the middle, apex acute to acuminate, occasionally rounded or obtuse. Venation: veins distinct, veinlets much branched and strongly anastomosing, free veinlets many, excurrent and recurrent. Hydathodes distinct. Stellate hairs dimorphic, a dense mat, light greyish brown, the straight upper rays boat-shaped, appressed. Sori apical to all over the lamina, shortly spaced, in an ill-defined patch, 0.5 mm wide, containing c. 10 sporangia, many scattered over each areole, superficial, developing acropetally. Sporangia sessile, paraphyses not differentiated. Spores smooth.