Dennstaedtiaceae

Sori linear, marginal. Rhizome clothed with simple or pleuricellular hairs Dennstaedtiaceae

Sori orbicular, not confluent, terminal or almost so on the veins

Indusium absent or with a short, roundish, reflexed false Indusium Hypolepis

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Secondary rhachises, costae, costules and minor veinlets clothed often rather sparsely with stiff, acute, non-glandular, septate hairs. Main rhachis yellowish white or straw yellow or red-brown or light to dark brown, smooth or with scattered brown or orange-brown tubercles, usually almost glabrous. Rhizome 1–3 mm diam. Plants 30–90 cm high. Widespread. Along creeks or in swampy land in open forest, at edge of RF or in open pasture Hypolepis muelleri

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Secondary rhachises, coastae, costules and minor veinlets densely clothed with crisped, septate hairs a number of which have glandular apical cells