Trichomanes

Microgonium Presl

Minute epiphytes or subepiphytes. Rhizome filamentous, long-creeping with spaced fronds, hairy, lacking roots. Fronds short-stipitate, the lamina simple or lobed, peltate or basally attached, glabrous or abaxially hairy along the veins, or at the base only, venation +/- pinnate to flabellate or pedate, false veins present between the true veins, margins entire with or without a submarginal vein, texture membranous. Sporangia sessile, borne on an elongate columnar receptacle, terminal on the segments, immersed in marginal obconic or tubular involucre (indusium), the lip entire, dilated, the receptacle exserted when mature; paraphyses lacking, annulus complete, oblique. Spores trilete.

Species in Papuasia