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Campteria C. Presl, Tent. Pterid. 146. 1836.

Plants often large. Fronds monomorphic, division patterns and lobe shape same as for Pteris sect. Quadriauricula but often divided and 3-divaricate (lateral pinnae usually again divided into 2 forks); lobes without cartilaginous margin, serrate; costae spiny along both sides of groove on adaxial side; venation anastomosing to form a series of narrow areoles along costae, veinlets free beyond areoles and extending to margins. Sori linear, extending continuously along lobe margins, often sterile at apex; indusia brown or light brown, linear, membranous, entire, persistent.

Mainly distributed in the tropics; nine species (four endemic) in China.