Citation: Ching, Bull. Fan 8:157 (1938).

Derivation: From the genus Lastrea; Greek opsis, looking like.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Terrestrial ferns with an erect slow- or long-creeping scaly rhizome; fronds decompound, lowermost pinnae markedly basiscopic; veins free, costae raised; rhachis with 2 prominent ridges; sori rounded, terminal on small veins, indusiate or rarely exindusiate; indusium reniform to orbicular.

Image source: fig. 17c in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  About 30 species, cosmopolitan; 11 in Australia (Tindale (1965) Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 3:249-339).

Biology: No text

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