The anterior end of the frond possesses a single near triangu-lar vegetative pouch, wide towards the opening and converging tothe interior of the frond (Fig. 2a–c). The daughter fronds are pro-duced by vegetative budding in this special sac and are held insidewith the help of a stipe which connects them to the mother frond(Fig. 2b and c). The stipe is continuous with the ventral epidermis ofthe daughter frond and as the daughter frond grows the cells of thestipe elongate over their antero-posterior axes (Fig. 2b). The daugh-ter fronds are released (Fig. 1d and i) through the opening of thevegetative pouch after detachment from the stipe. The remnants ofthe stipe are left inside the pouch (Fig. 2a). Just below the openingof the pouch on the ventral surface, the frond retains a prominentscar at a position where the connection to the stipe from its motherexisted before (Fig. 1i). It is also evident as a rupture on the ventralside of the frond as depicted in Fig. 2c.