Erect terrestrial ferns of small to moderate size. Rhizome short-creeping to compact and erect, with stiff dark multicellular hairs, crowded fronds and long fibrous roots. Fronds long-stipitate, the stipes deciduously setose, the lamina broadly ovate, pinnately compound, the ultimate segments with several forked veins, each branch ending in a shallow marginal lobe, the margin otherwise entire, texture firm, glabrous, the major axes with clavate hairs. Species in Papuasia 1a. Small, erect terrestrial or subepiphytic ferns.
Spores trilete, globose.
Species in Papuasia 1a. Fronds fascicled 2 Rhizome creeping, fronds remote 3 2a. Segments linear M. schlechteri Segments setaceous M. meifolia 3a. Lamina typically setaceous, squarrose M. meifolia Segments linear, not squarrose 4 4a. Walls slightly irregularly thickened 5 Lateral walls uniformly thin M. gemmata 5a.