ABSTRACT
Terrestrial, epiphytic, or on rocks, often scandent or creeping; rhizome closely covered with imbricate scales with peltate attachments; rhizomes of creeping species with evenly, well-spaced tufts of fronds, erect species with close tufts of fronds; rhizome with a much dissected dictyostele. Fronds with stipes articulated at a longer or shorter distance from the rhizome forming a phyllopodium or not articulated; lamina simple or pinnate, the pinnae jointed. Sori close to costa and not terminal on the veins in Oleandra; terminal on veins and closer to margin in Nephrolepis; indusia mostly round or reniform .
