English: Marginated monolete fern; Lace fern;Marginated half net fern; Marginate Fern; Marginate Polypody.
Clades:
Hemidictyaceae.
Genus: 1 species.
Region: Central and South America, Caribbean, Asia.
Habitat: prefers moist, shaded forest floors, often in tropical or subtropical regions.
Use: ornamental, ground cover, in aquariums.
BotanyFern; understory.
Root: creeping rhizome from which the fronds arise.
Leaves: singular, monomorphic; quite large; lanceolate to oblong; pinnately compound; distinctive lace-like appearance due to the network of veins; leaf margins finely serrated or lobed; veins form a reticulate, net-like.
Spores:
Sori: linear; along the veins of the fronds.
TaxonomyIn the Pteridophyte
Phylogeny Group classification of 2016. Alternatively it can be placed in a much more broadly defined family
Aspleniaceae as the subfamily Asplenioideae.