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Rhizome long-creeping, tortuous, flattish, ca. 1.5 cm thick, densely clothed with thin, yellowbrown, lanceolate scales up to 15 mm long and 4 mm broad below the middle, the tips tortuous-attenuate, the margins entire. Fronds varying greatly in size (depending on conditions of growth and exposure), 20-150 cm long, the deeplytortuous- grooved, straw-colored stipes usually shorter grooved, straw-colored stipes usually shorter the blades, nearly naked or with a few scattered linear scales. Blades 15-90 cm long, 10-75 broad at the base; rhachis and costate doubly grooved adaxially, the costal grooves continuous with those of rhachis; pinnae stalked, the basal ones much the largest, unequafly deltate, long-acuminate; ultimate pinnules lance-elliptic to ovate-oblong from an unequal, cuneate base, acutish at apex, the larger ones obliquely incised, the smaller bluntly serrate. Sori large, slightly inframedial.

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Stem: horizontal with/scale/margin/denticulate/or/entire. Leaf: frond tripinnate/pinnatifid. Type of sporangium: leptosporangium pedicellate/glabrous. Sporangium: annulus vertical/with/indusium/glabrous/or/glandular. Spore: monolete surface/tuberculate.

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Caule: horizontal com/escama(s)/margem(ns)/denticulada(s)/ou/inteira. Folha: fronde(s) tripinada(s)/pinatifida(s). Tipo de esporângio: leptosporângio pedicelada(s)/glabro(s). Esporângio: ânulo vertical/com/indúsio/glabro(s)/ou/glandular(es). Esporo: monolete superfície(s)/tuberculada(s).

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Tallo: horizontal con/escama(s)/margen(es)/denticulada(s)/o/entera. Hoja: fronde(s) tripinada(s)/pinatifida(s). Tipo de esporangio: leptosporángio pedicelada(s)/glabro(s). Esporangio: ánulo vertical/con/indusio/glabro(s)/o/glandular(es). Esporo: monolete superficie(s)/tuberculada(s).

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Rhizome creeping, ±8 mm in diameter, set with reddish brown, erose rhizome-scales. Lamina 3-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, 300-900 x 100-300 mm, glabrous. Pinnules ovate-deltate, margin crenate-dentate. Indusia peltate. Sori ± 2 mm in diameter, numerous.

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Rhizomatous perennial. Fronds arching, to 1.2 m long, stipe scaled, lamina coriaceous, pentagonal, 3-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, proximal pinnae basiscopically developed, ultimate segments ovate, margins crenate-dentate, sparsely scaled beneath. Sori circular, indusium peltate.

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Rhizome creeping, c. 8 mm in diameter, set with membranous, reddish brown, acuminate, erose rhizome-scales c. 8 x 3.5 mm. Fronds spaced, coriaceous; stipe brown, sulcate ventrally, set with light brown scales, becoming glabrous with age; lamina pentagonal, 3-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, basal pinnae largest and greatly developed basiscopically; pinnules ovate-deltate, leading edge wider and first segment more deeply incised; ultimate segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, margin crenate-dentate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface set with occasional scales on veins. Sori c. 2 mm in diameter; indusium peltate.

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Erva

Forests and rocky ravines, 50-1200 m.

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Terrícola

Open undergrowth in shade of forest and forest margins and in rocky ravines.

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Epífita

Open undergrowth in shade of forest and forest margins, or in rocky ravines, c. 250-1900 m.

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Rupícola

Bermuda, Greater Antilles, South America; widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere tropics and subtropics.

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Cape Peninsula to Mpumalanga, Madagascar, S Oceanic islands, Australia, Polynesia, Mesoamerica.

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Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Seychelles, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, Amsterdam Island, New Zealand, South and Central America. Also recorded from temperate Australia and Polynesia.

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