Flora of New Zealand Series

Mecodium flexuosum (A. Cunn.) Cop. loc. cit. 67, 1938, 24. Referred by Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. FL. 1925, 7) to

H. australe Willd.

Rhizome rather slender, densely clad when young in bristly hairs; stipites distant to approximate. Stipes 5-10 cm. long, rather slender, furnished nearly to base with broad crenulate, ± crisped, wing. Rhachis slender, crenulately winged. Lamina 3-15 cm. long, bright green, darkening with age, broadly triangular, us. acuminate, 2-3-pinnatifid; final segs linear to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, somewhat undulate. Sori often ∞, free. Indusium 1-1·5 mm. long, suborbicular, 2-valved to base; valves entire, rounded. Receptacle not exserted.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland forests, terrestrial or rupestral, occ. epiphytic, throughout. Apparently endemic.