Flora of New Zealand Series

Aspidium hispidum Swartz Syn. Fil. 1806, 56.

Polystichum hispidum J. Smith in J. Bot. 4, 1841, 195.

Nephrodium hispidum Hook. Sp. Fil. 4, 1862, 150.

Rhizome stout, up to 5 mm. diam., creeping, densely clad in dark red-brown linear-attenuate paleae up to 1 cm. long; stipites distributed along rhizome. Stipes stout, grooved, 20-40-(50) cm. long, dark reddish brown, densely clad in stiff patent dark hairs up to 1 cm. long, with swollen bases remaining as tubercles. Rhachis stout, similarly clad and coloured. Lamina 20-50 × 12-30 cm., 3-(4)-pinnate, brownish green, firm, thinly coriac., deltoid to broad-ovate, acuminate, veins and veinlets us. prominent. Primary pinnae up to 10-20 × 5-10 cm., stalked, obliquely deltoid to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Secondary pinnae up to 7 × 3 cm., ovate to lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, stalked. Tertiary pinnae sessile decurrent to very shortly stalked, up to 2 cm. long, narrow-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, pinnatifid; teeth narrow-lanceolate, aristate to acute. Sori up to 8 per tertiary pinnule, 0.75-1·5 mm. diam.; indusium round-reniform with narrow sinus.

DIST.: N., S., St., Ch. Coastal to montane forest throughout. Also in Victoria and N.S.W.