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Description: Rhizome dorsiventral, short- to long-creeping, scales pale to medium brown or dark brown.

Simple, venation free, hydathodes sometimes present on vein endings on adaxial surface.

Sori superficial or slightly sunken on abaxial lamina surface, in two rows , circular to linear-elliptic. Sporangia glabrous

Distribution and occurrence: Twelve species, circumpolar in southern temperate regions.

The genera Notogrammitis and Grammitis are challenging to differentiate in a key. For this reason the keys to species under Grammitis covers both genera.

	Key to the species
1	Fronds usually <5 cm long; stipe lacking hairs	2
	Fronds usually >5 cm long; stipe conspicuously hairy	Notogrammitis billardierei
2	Sori circular, and coalescing into a raised mass towards the tip of the lamina	Notogrammitis crassior
	Sori globose to oblong, 2–25 pairs in upper two-thirds of frond                        Back to 1	Grammitis stenophylla