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Veins anastomosing Polypodiaceae
Epiphytic or rupestral ferns with long-creeping rhizomes. Sori round or, if elongated and confluent, then 2–6.5 cm long. Scale-fronds absent
Lamina densely tomentose with appressed, persistent, stellate hairs. Paraphyses stellate. Scales of the rhizome non-clathrate Pyrrosia
Sori usually restricted to the extreme distal portions of the fertile fronds as 2 oblong or oval coenosori, occasionally fusing to form a single round patch but rarely a single row of unfused sori on each side of the midrib. Fertile and sterile fronds rather similar, mostly 3–7 cm long including the stipes (but ranging from 1.5–18 cm long), 0.5–1.5 cm broad; sterile fronds never orbicular. Scales of the rhizome appressed, fimbriate, thick, dark chestnut-coloured in the young condition, later dark brown or dark grey-brown or black; border pale, hyaline. Hunter River Valley. RF. On trees and logs Pyrrosia confluensconfluens