Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Tmesipteris Bernh.

TMESIPTERIS Bernh., 1800

Sporangia 2-celled, coriac.; cells elongate, pointed, constricted at junction, septum across narrowest diam., terminal on short lobes that bear two lf-like lobes just below insertion of sporangium. Plant us. epiphytic, with pend. axis. Lobes ∞, lf-like, flattened laterally, decurrent, irregularly two-rowed. Lower part of aerial axis with scale-like lobes or nearly naked. One polymorphic sp.: Australia, Tasmania, N.Z., Pacific Islands.

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