Actinostachys digitata Wall.

Rhizome short-creeping or suberect, clothed with long stiff glossy pale brown hairs. Fronds clustered, linear-flattened, grass-like, 9–35 cm long, 2–4 mm wide; surface smooth, slightly shiny, tapering at apex; midrib prominently raised on 1 side. Sporogenous lobes 5–18, linear, tufted at apex, 9–40 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, occasionally with some branches forked distally. Sporangia in a double row on either side of costule.

Grows in open situations in rainforest or on forest margins in the humus accumulations around the bases of trees or palms, in sandy soil along creeks and among rocks in gullies.