作者

SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG

型態特徵

Terrestrial or in few species climbing; rhizome creeping, protostelic, clothed with narrow scales or with hairs (or both). Fronds pinnately divided, sometimes very finely, in a few cases simple, not articulated to rhizome; veins free or anastomosing without included free veinlets. Sori marginal or nearly marginal, terminal on the veins, simple (on apices of separate veins) or joined to form a fusion-sori (coenosori) of varying lengths, upon submarginal soral veins joining the form a ends of the normal veins; indusia always present, attached on the basal side of the sorus and opening towards the margin, in some cases attached by its sides as well as base; sporangia developing in gradate sequence, with vertical annulus. Spores tetrahedral or rarely bilateral.

屬

A family of about ten genera and 250 species, mainly tropical in distribution; three genera and 11 species in Taiwan.

參考文獻

• SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 172. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)