Lindsaea microphylla

Rhizome short, suberect, densely covered with pale scales having hair-points. Fronds clustered, erect, often the tips drooping, 10–50 cm long, delicate to lacy. Stipe comparatively short, slender, light brown towards base then straw-coloured, sometimes mottled. Lamina narrowly oblong to slightly triangular, 2–3-pinnate, yellow-green, membranous; rachises pale, yellowish, fine and sometimes twisted. Pinnae stalked, well separated in lower parts of taller fronds; pinnules triangular, 2–4 mm long, outer margins lobed or toothed. Sori extending along outer margin, protected by membranous indusium with frilled margin.