Flora of New Zealand Series

Sphaerocionium glanduliferum Presl Epim. bot. in Abh. böhm. Ges. Wiss. 5, 1849, 22, t. 12.

Mecodium scabrum (A. Rich.) Cop. loc. cit. 67, 1938, 24.

Type locality: "Crescit in Nova Zeelandia" (D'Urville). Type: P. Endemic.

Rhizome stout, ± clad in red-brown bristly hairs; stipites us. rather distant. Stipes stout, 5-15 cm. long, densely clad in bristly hairs, glabrate in age, not winged. Rhachis winged in upper part, ± bristly-hairy. Lamina 5-30 cm. long, ovate-deltoid to narrow-oblong, 4-pinna-tifid, dark green; primary pinnae up to 8 cm. long; final segs linear, obtuse. Sori us. ∞, in upper part of lamina, slightly immersed. Indusium 1-1·5 mm. long, ovate to suborbicular, 2-valved to base; valves us. toothed. Receptacles not or very slightly exserted.

DIST.: N., S., Ch. Lowland to montane forest, terrestrial or epiphytic, from lat. 35º southwards.

H. scabrum var. hirtum Col. in T.N.Z.I. 13, 1881, 379 from "On the ground in the Fagus solandri forests, east spurs of the Ruahine range" is based on forms with an unusually dense investiture of long hairs.