Flora of New Zealand Series

Caudex stout, 2-8 m. tall, invested by bases of fallen stipites; dead fronds hanging, long persistent; base widened by mass of rootlets, 50-80 cm. diam. Fronds 2.5-4 ×1·2 m.; coriac., shining dark green above, paler below. Stipes stout, clad at base with cop. linear brown paleae, under surface closely tuberculate. Rhachis (and secondary rhachides and costae) green, asperous, slightly grooved above, sparingly clad in deciduous yellow-brown woolly hairs mingled with paleae. Primary pinnae 45-60 × 20-23 cm., oblong-lanceolate, abruptly attenuate; secondary pinnae 11-12.5 × 2-2.5 cm., linear-oblong, falcate, attenuate, apex deeply serrate; deeply pinnatifid or pinnate. Segs 12-15 × 4 mm., oblong, falcate, acute, obscurely crenate-serrate, margins slightly recurved, under surface often scaly pubescent. Sori cop., 0·8-0.9 mm. diam. Indusium membr., splitting irregularly, persistent.

DIST.: K. Forest on Sunday Id. Endemic.