Sticherus C.Presl

Rhizome long-creeping, scaly but glabrescent; scales lanceolate; scale margins ciliate to fimbriate at least near apex; roots with very narrow linear cells. Fronds complex, consisting of up to 4 tiers of opposite, usually flabellate, primary branches with dormant vegetative buds between them. Stipes scattered along rhizome; rachis bearing brown scales and branched to stellate hairs, often glabrous on upper side. Lower primary branches rarely dividing; penultimate segments divided almost to midrib; ultimate segments alternate or occasionally opposite, linear, entire or toothed, glabrous above, usually with scales and branched hairs on undersurface, green to glaucous; venation open, dichotomous. Sori of 2–8 large sporangia, arranged in 2 rows along ultimate segments, half-way between midrib and margin on distal branches of veins, exindusiate; sporangia occasionally intermixed with paraphyses. Spores monolete, ellipsoidal; surface rugulose, usually perforate.