毛禾蕨属 mao he jue shu

Authors: Shannjye Moore & Barbara S. Parris

Plants small to medium-sized, epiphytic. Rhizomes radial, with stipes in whorls; scales not clathrate, medium to dark reddish brown, with marginal hairs. Stipe not articulate, phyllopodia absent. Lamina deeply pinnately divided to narrow wing along rachis; veins on pinnae pinnately branched, free; vein endings without hydathodes on adaxial surface of lamina. Sori more than 1 per pinna, orbicular to oval, superficial or slightly sunken in broad shallow depressions on lamina. Sporangia glabrous. Hairs simple, eglandular, dark reddish brown; 1- or 2-forked hairs with eglandular branches sometimes also present.

About six species: Sri Lanka to Pacific islands; one species in China.

Lower Taxon

• Dasygrammitis mollicoma (Nees & Blume) Parris