Flora of New Zealand Series

Rhizomes far-creeping, scaly. Stipes and rachises stiffly hairy. Laminae ovate or broadly ovate, 15-35 × 10-25 cm, (2)-3-pinnate. Primary pinnae alternate, 2-5 on each side of rachis bearing secondary pinnae, and a terminal portion with 10-18 undivided primary pinnae on each side. Ultimate pinnules ± oblong or parallelogrammoid, often curved acroscopically at the apices, 6-25 × 3-8 mm; stalk attached at proximal corner; upper and outer margins irregularly lobed, lower and inner margins entire; upper surface glabrous, lower stiffly hairy, both surfaces dark green. Indusia ± reniform with prominent sinuses, glabrous, up to 14 per pinnule on upper and outer margins, sometimes extending to apical part of lower margin.

N.: common from North Cape to Taranaki and Bay of Plenty, local in Wellington (N. Wairarapa, Wellington City); S.: Nelson (Golden Bay, West Whanganui Inlet), Marlborough (Sounds district), Canterbury (Banks Peninsula, but not seen recently).

Endemic.

Coastal forest, bush margins, banks.

Although Raoul collected the type specimen from Akaroa, it has not been seen there since.