Flora of New Zealand Series

Rhizomes creeping, producing runners, scaly. Stipes and rachises glabrous except at very base. Laminae ovate, 10-30 × 6-15 cm, (2)-3-pinnate at base. Primary pinnae alternate, 8-12 on each side of rachis. Ultimate pinnules generally broader than long, either very broadly obovate, orbicular, or broadly ovate, 3-10 × 4-15 mm, cuneate at base, with stalk attached ± centrally, entire or shallowly lobed, glabrous, yellow green. Indusia ± reniform with prominent sinuses, glabrous, 1-4 per pinnule on outer margin only.

N.: scattered localities, chiefly coastal, from North Cape to Wairarapa; S.: Nelson (Buller Gorge, but not recently collected).

Also indigenous to South Africa and Australia.

Damp banks in open forest and scrub.