Flora of New Zealand Series

Aerial axis up to 5 dm. long, pend., rarely forked. Lf-like lobes up to 3 cm. long and 6 mm. wide, about oblong, truncate to subacute at tip, us. mucronate, subcoriac., dark green. Sporangia sessile at apex of fertile lobes, lying ║ lobe, with two lf-like lobes arising immediately below and extending beyond sporangium which is 4-6 mm. long, brown, coriac., subacutely pointed.

DIST.: K., N., S., St., Ch., A. Common in lowland, less frequent in lower montane forest, usually epiphytic, occasionally on rocks.