Synonym: Cheiropteris.
Genus: 4 species.
Region: SW China.
BotanyFern; terrestrial; medium-sized.
Root: rhizome long, creeping, rather thick, densely scaly; scales brown, iridescent, clathrate, ovate-lanceolate, margin dentate
Leaves: distant; trifid, or palmately lobed, base attenuate, middle segment longer; segments lanceolate, papery, glabrous, with small brown scales when young, margin entire; main veins raised, small veinlets obscure; stipe stramineous, longer than lamina.
Sori: oblong to elongate; parallel to costa; paraphyses present, clathrate and peltate.
Spores: verrucate.