Prosaptia Presl

Small to medium size, erect or pendulous epiphytes. Rhizome dictyostelic, erect to short-creeping with crowded fronds, scales basally attached, ciliate, opaque dark brown. Fronds stipitate, the stipes articulate to the rhizome, lamina elongate, +/- tapered at both ends, pinnatifid to pinnate with adnate contiguous pinnae, each pinnae with a distinct costa, thick and leathery, glabrescent, the rachis with numerous short, stiff, unicellular hairs; veins simple, rarely forked, pinnately arranged about the costule. Sori solitary and terminal on a few apical veins, and/or terminal on each segment, the receptacle +/- elongate, deeply immersed in pockets of the lamina opening on the margin, or submarginally and directed outwards, exindusiate, parphyses lacking, sporangia on a uniseriate stalk, naked, annulus vertical, interrupted of c.11 thickened cells. Spores trilete.

Species in Papuasia