Flora of New Zealand Series

Lomaria banksii Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 2, 1855, 31, t. 76.

Rhizome stout, erect, invested by bases of fallen stipites, clad in dark linear- to ovate-attenuate paleae c. 1 cm. long; stipites tufted. Stipes stiff, paleate at base, narrowly winged, dark, 2-7 cm. long. Rhachis stout, nude, grooved above. Sterile lamina subcoriac., dark green above, paler below, sts ± glaucous, pinnate in lower portion, pinnatifid in upper; 5-30 cm. × 10-25 mm., linear-lanceolate, acuminate to obtuse. Pinnae close-set, 10-15 × 5-10 mm., oblong to suborbicular; margins entire. Lowest pinnae reduced, forming a sinuate wing. Fertile lamina 5-15 × 1-2 cm.; pinnae up to 10 × 5 mm., oblong to narrow-oblong. Sori covering whole of undersurface.

DIST.: N., S., St., C. Coastal rocks throughout, but local. Hooker based his sp. on specimens from several localities in both N. and S. Endemic.