Flora of New Zealand Series

A. adiantoides Raoul in Ann. Sci. nat. Sér. 3, 2, 1844, 115 non Raddi.

A. adiantoides var. hookerianum Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 2, 1855, 35.

Type locality: "Under volcanic conglomerate rocks, valley of Hinuera, between Tauranga (Bay of Plenty) and the river Waikato." Type: W, "between Matamata and Maungatautari, Jan. 1842, W.C." Endemic.

Rhizome short, erect, clad in dense linear-acuminate paleae c. 1 cm. long; stipites tufted, paleate at base. Stipes slender, 2-15 cm. long, ± paleate. Rhachis slender, compressed, densely paleate to nude, with about 11 lateral pinnae. Lamina ovate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, acuminate to acute, dark green, membr., bipinnate to pinnate, 5-15-(25) × 2.5-5-(10) cm. Pinnae stalked to subsessile, ovate- to narrow-oblong, 2.5-8 cm. × 15-20 mm. Pinnules few ((3)-5-(10)), 5-10 × 3-10 mm., obovate-oblong to rhomboid, stalked to subsessile, obliquely cuneate at base, crenate- to inciso-serrate; veinlets forked. Sori remote from margin, 2-4 mm. long, oblong, sts confluent and covering most of undersurface of pinnule; indusium firm.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland and lower montane forests throughout, but local in occurrences, from lat. 35º southwards.