Flora of New Zealand Series

Aspidium uliginosum Kunze in Linnaea 20, 1847, 6.

Dryopteris setigera auct. non  Cheilanthes setigera Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. 1828, 138.

Rhizome short, stipites crowded; stipes up to 6 cm. long, stiff, pale brown, sparingly paleate at base. Rhachis often densely pilose when young, becoming glabrate, pale brown to stramineous, c. 2 mm. diam.; costae with slender patent hairs. Lamina up to 1 m × 45 cm., about ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, membr., bipinnate or rarely tripinnate; under surface ± clad in slender hairs. Primary pinnae alt., spreading, gradually tapering to acuminate apex; lowest 5-8 cm. long; mid pinnae increasing to 25 × 8 cm.; upper gradually decreasing to acuminate terminal seg. Secondary pinnae pinnatisect, up to 4 cm. × 5 mm. narrow-oblong, acute to acuminate or obtuse with toothed apex. Segs narrow-triangular to narrow-oblong, up to 5 mm. long, acute to obtuse and 2-3-cleft. Sori up to 5 pairs per seg., hardly 1 mm. diam. Indusium cordate-reniform, caducous.

DIST.: K. Forest, and near fumaroles. Also in Australia and Polynesia.