Common Name: Blanket ferns
Description: Terrestrial ferns; rhizome short, bearing narrow, dark, clathrate scales and numerous fibrous roots.
Fronds tufted, stipe and lamina densely covered with gland-tipped and/or simple hairs; lamina herbaceous, 1–2-pinnate with pinnae pinnatifid; veins free.
Sori superficial, oblong to linear, without indusium.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 4 species, 3 species southern temperate zone & 1 species Spain & Morocco. Australia: 2 species, all States.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Most hairs not gland-tipped, c. 1 mm long | Pleurosorus rutifolius |
| All, or most, hairs short and gland-tipped | Pleurosorus subglandulosus |
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