Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Rhizome creeping or erect, covered with scales or bristle-like or woolly hairs; fronds small, very variable, thin or coriaceous; sori superficial or submarginal, exindusiate or with a false indusium, discrete or confluent and forming more or less continuous bands or extending inwards along the veins; false indusium either a reflexed modified marginal flap or the reflexed modified continuous margin of the ultimate segment.

Distribution:  9 genera in Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Genera:

1. Sori marginal, indusium usually present
2. Sori discrete, reniform or oblong; pinnules dimidiate to orbicular, distinctly stalked	ADIANTUM 1.
2. Sori continuous along the margin or forming broken lines; pinnules oblong, lanceolate or triangular, sessile	CHEILANTHES 3.
1. Sori superficial, sometimes submarginal, indusium absent
3. Fronds bipinnatisect, thin, glabrous	ANOGRAMMA 2.
3. Fronds pinnate, thick, scaly	PARACETERACH 4.

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