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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke

G. linearis (Burman) C. B. Clarke in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1, (2nd series), 1880, 425.

Polypodium lineare Burman Fl. indica 1768, 235, t. 67.

Polypodium dichotomum Thunb. Fl. jap. 1784, 338, t. 37.

Mertensia dichotoma Willd. in K. svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 1804, 167.

Dicranopteris linearis (Burman) Underwood in Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 34, 1907, 250.

Rhizome slender, clad in long narrow reddish brown fimbriate to laciniate scales. Stipes slender, smooth, 10-30 cm. long or more, often reduced. Branches repeatedly forked. Pinnae 10-30 cm. long, lanceolate in outline with pair of accessory pinnae up to 6 cm. long at base of lower forks. Pinnules 1-2 cm. or more long, linear, pale green; veins, at least lower ones, several times forked. Sori with 6-12 pale yellowish-white sporangia.

DIST.: N. Lowland places on heated soils near hot springs: Rotomahana (apparently all destroyed by Tarawera eruption), Otumakokori, Orakeikorako, Karapiti, Wairakei, Matata. Rotorua, near Whakatane. Endemic.

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