Tapeinidium
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Description
Small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns with very short to moderately long- creeping rhizome with at least in the larger species a true solenostele with external and internal endodermis and a medullary Strand of sclerenchyma.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Australasia, Melanesia present, New Caledonia present, Pacific: Samoa (Samoa present), S. India present
17 spp., from S. India, the Malay Peninsula, and the Ryu Kyu Is. to Melanesia and Samoa; absent from Australia, probably also from New Caledonia.