Description: Epiphytic or growing on rocks; the rhizome creeping, thick and fleshy, covered with scales.
Fronds of two kinds; sterile ('nest') fronds that are sessile and become brown and papery, and stipitate fertile fronds; venation reticulate.
Sori circular, without indusium.
Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 15 species, Africa to Pacific, China to Australia. Australia: 3 species, Qld, N.S.W., N.T., W.A.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| One species in NSW: Drynaria rigidula |
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