Greek odontos - tooth, sorus - spore case.
Mostly medium-sized to large fast-growing terrestrial creeping ferns grown for their delicately dissected fronds. Sterile and fertile fronds similar. Fronds divided at least 2 times and often finely dissected. Segments wedge-shaped to linear, membranous to leathery; veins free or forked. Indusium positioned at the end of 1-many veins, attached at the base and along most of its sides.
22 species throughout the tropics.
Sori at the tips of the wedge-shaped segments at the end of 1-many veins, the indusium opening outwards, attached at the base and sides.
Source: (1995). Lindsaeaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 1, Ferns, conifers & their allies. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.