Flora of New Zealand Series

Adiantum cuneatum Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 84.

Rhizome slender, creeping, 1-1·5 mm. diam., densely clad when young in dark brown subulate- to linear-attenuate paleae; stipites approximate to distributed, paleate at base. Stipes 3-20 cm. long, slender, erect, wiry, dark brown, glab., shining. Rhachis similar, sts lighter in colour. Lamina bipinnate to subtripinnate, 5-25 × 1-10 cm., narrow lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, coriac., rather dark green. Primary pinnae 1-5 cm. × 10-15 mm., subopp., slightly ascending, broadly to narrowly obcuneate, ± lobed, or again pinnate in lower part. Lobes entire to obscurely toothed; veins flabellately forked. Sori extending along apex of lobe, confluent. Indusium broad, delicate.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to montane shrubland and light forest from lat. 35º southwards, local in southern part of range. Also in Australia, Tasmania, Fiji. Forster gives no locality for his sp.