Flora of New Zealand Series

Macroglena stricta (Menzies) Cop. loc. cit. 67, 1938, 85.

T. leptophyllum A. Cunn. in Compan. bot. Mag. 2, 1837, 368.

Type locality: Dusky Bay. Type: K, Menzies. Carse (T.N.Z.I. 47, 1915, 76) found near Kaitaia specimens "growing on deeply shaded clay banks of a creek, and also on the margins of 'pot-holes' from which gum has been dug on the moorlands". Endemic?

Rhizome stout, abbreviated, forming a short stock ± clad in long red-brown hairs; stipites crowded. Stipes stout, 5-10 cm. long or more, sts slightly winged in upper part, bristly-hairy at base, sts bearing also sparse deciduous hairs. Rhachis stout, narrowly winged throughout or in upper part only. Lamina 7-20 cm. or more long, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate to oblong, acuminate, 3-4-pinnatifid; lower pinnae us. reduced; final segs under 1 mm. wide, linear, obtuse; veinlets less stout than in T. elongatum. Sori on short lateral segs near base of upper margins of pinnules. Indusium c. 1 mm. long, free, cylindric to funnel-form, winged, dilated at mouth. Receptacle slender, far exserted, up to 15 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland and montane forest from lat. 35º southwards, but apparently uncommon.

Copeland (Philipp. J. Sci. 51, 1933, 177) records T. bipunctatum Poir., in Lamarck Encyc. 8, 1808, 69, as occurring in N.Z. This belongs to his genus Crepidomanes, with rhizome "often or always" rootless, false veinlets or striae always present, mouth of indusium bifid. I have not seen specimens. His description includes: "Stipes 2-3 cm. long, terete, hairy and dark at base, winged in the upper part, rachis winged throughout . . . frond 5-8 cm. long, lanceolate or ovate, tripinnatifid . . . false vein almost continuous . . . other striae absent or rare . . . involucre 2 mm. long, tubular, slender, winged, conspicuously bilabiate . . . lips commonly as long as wide". The type is from Madagascar, and the sp. is common in Polynesia. Copeland makes no further reference to his N.Z. specimens.