Rhizome erect, 2-3 mm wide; scales uniformly pale brown. Frond palmate, the divisions further divided, of 2 kinds, sterile fronds about half the size of fertile ones and with rounder lobes; margins with rounded teeth. Buds sometimes develop at the base of the blade fingers. Sori along the veins below.

Needs shelter and warmth.

Tropical America.

Palmate frond blades with rounded teeth on the margins and buds developing at the base of lobes.

Source: Spencer, R. (1995). Adiantaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.