Calochlaena villosa (C.Chr.) M.D.Turner & R.A.White

Rhizome suberect, forming a short thick woody trunk, hairy at the apex; hairs reddish brown. Fronds moderately crowded, 50–150 cm long, erect and spreading, pale green to yellow green. Stipe c. as long as the lamina, with long reddish hairs towards the base. Lamina broadly triangular, 3–4-pinnate, to 1 m long and broad, subcoriaceous, hairy; hairs greyish, soft and thin, particularly dense on the undersurfaces of rachises and veins, a few reddish hairs also on the main rachis; rachises pale. Ulimate segments oblique to the rachis, bluntly lobed; margins recurved. Sori in 2 marginal rows.

Grows in moist open forest on mountains and tablelands.