特徵描述
作者
DEVOL, CHARLES E. and SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG
型態特徵
Rhizome woody, creeping, covered with very narrow linear, dark, stiff scales; siphonostelic. Fronds broadly fan-shaped, cleft to base into two equal divisions, each half dichotomously divided into several long linear lobes; main veins dichotomous, with many nearly parallel smaller veins connecting the main veins at right angles, forming oblong areolae, these sub-divided into many small rectangular areolae; stipes stout, longer than lamina, grooved on upper side, without scales except at base. Sori small, round, exindusiate, one per small areola, borne on junction of veinlets; paraphyses mixed with sporangia.
屬
Only one living genus.
參考文獻
Cheiropleuria 燕尾蕨屬
作者
DEVOL, CHARLES E. and SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG
型態特徵
The characters of the genus are the same as given for the family.