Small to minute, pendulous epiphytes. Rhizome filamentous, long-creeping with spaced fronds, bearing roots. M. digitatum Vandenboschia Copel. Small to moderate-sized terrestrial ferns or spreading epiphytes. Rhizome thick and wiry, long-creeping with spaced fronds, bearing roots.
Spores trilete, globose.
Species in Papuasia 1a. Vertical climbers with simply pinnate fronds V. auriculata Terrestrial or climbing with decompound fronds 2 2a. Vertical climbers with reduced abortive fronds at the base of the stipes V. aphlebioides Terrestrial without such reduced fronds V. maxima Reediella Pic. Minute epiphytes or subepiphytes. Rhizome filiform, long-creeping with spaced fronds, lacking roots, densely covered with dark multicellular hairs.