Taenitis Willd. ex Schkuhr

Rhizome creeping, the young parts protected by dark glossy rigid bristles. Fronds monomorphic or slightly to strongly dimorphic (fertile fronds with narrower lamina or pinnae). Stipe dark, glossy, the upper side grooved towards the lamina. Lamina simple, 1-pinnate or rarely (not in Australia) trilobed, with a conform terminal segment on pinnate fronds. Pinnae entire, narrowly elliptic, ±coriaceous, glabrous; venation reticulate, the veins forming 2 or more series of narrow oblique subequal areoles, without free included veinlets, sometimes free at the margin. Sori either single and ±continuous between midrib and margin of pinnae, or spreading along individual veins, or discrete and scattered; indusium absent, but sporangia ±protected when immature by multicellular paraphyses. Spores trilete, tetrahedral-globose, usually tuberculate.