Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ferns, Vol. 3: British and Exotic
The form of the frond is either simple, pinnate, pedate, bipinnate, reniform, or decompound; varying in its length from six inches 'to three feet. The fronds are mostly smooth.
The stipes and rachis are mostly black in colour, and have a polished glossy appearance. Usually the pinna: are oblique, truncate, or wedge-shaped at the base, or dimidiate, and only soriferous on the upper margin, mostly articulated with the rachis or petiole.
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