Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Terrestrial or rarely epiphytic ferns with a creeping or shortly erect scaly rhizome, occasionally forming a narrow trunk; fronds pinnatifid or pinnate more rarely bipinnate, uniform or dimorphic, the spore-bearing fronds markedly narrower; stipes not articulated to the rhizome; veins free or anastomosing near the costae; sori elongated into coenosori or short and often confluent when old; indusium opening inwards towards the costa.

Distribution:  4 genera in Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Genera:

1. Fertile fronds much narrower than the sterile ones; sori forming a continuous band along the margin	BLECHNUM 1.
1. Fertile fronds similar to the sterile ones; sori small, discrete, away from the margin	DOODIA 2.

Author: Not yet available