Terpsichore A.R. Sm.

Plants epiphytic, rarely saxicolous or terrestrial; rhizomes short-creeping to ascending, generally weakly dorsiventral to radial, the scales nonclathrate, brown to blackish, infrequently orangish, concolorous, dull to usually shining, glabrous or with variously colored (hyaline to castaneous) setae; phyllopodia present or absent; petioles nearly absent to equaling the lamina, setose (especially proximally) and sometimes also puberulent, the setae 0.5-3 mm, usually reddish or castaneous, numerous, spreading, the hairs 0.1-0.2 mm, branched or unbranched, pale reddish, sometimes glandular; laminae pinnatisect to 1-pinnate, rarely 1-pinnate-pinnatifid, forking in a few spp., monomorphous, usually setose (at least along the rhachis); hydathodes present, sometimes producing calcareous secretions (whitish limedots); veins simple, pinnate from the costae, free, hidden or easily visible; sori round, not sunken into the lamina, without paraphyses; sporangial capsules glabrous or setose.

Comment: Sometimes placed in the family of the Grammitidaceae

Worldwide: Neotropical

Malawi: 2 taxa.