Calochlaena dubia (R.Br.) M.D.Turner & R.A.White

Rhizome short-to medium-creeping, 1.5–2 cm thick, bearing red roots, hairy; hairs soft, some short and silvery, others longer and brown. Fronds moderately crowded, 30–150 cm long, erect with drooping tips, green to yellow green. Stipe c. as long as lamina, hairy towards the base. Lamina broadly triangular, 3–4-pinnate, 30–80 cm long and broad, herbaceous to coriaceous, sparsely hairy; hairs more dense on the undersurfaces of rachises and veins; rachises pale, often mottled with brown. Ultimate segments oblique to the rachis, bluntly lobed; margins recurved. Sori in 2 marginal rows.

Often forming extensive patches on hillsides in open eucalypt forest, also colonising disturbed sites such as road cuttings.