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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

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

consider the other alternative

Stipes dark red-brown or purplish-red. Main rhachis red-brown or purplish red or orange-red, with scattered, dark red tubercles. Hairs of the costae and costules with brownish lumina. Rhizome 1–2 mm diam. Plants 30–60 cm high. Blue Mts. Mountain gullies near creeks or in swampy land Hypolepis rugulosa