Dicksonia blumei (Kunze) T.Moore

Trunk to 6 m; stipes to 60 cm or more, clothed at the base with spreading red-brown shining hairs 30-50 mm long, with an under-coat of much finer short pale hairs; upper part of stipe and main rachis dark, finely and closely warty, bearing sparse short pale hairs; lamina to 300 cm long; pinnae to 70 cm long, pinna-rachis bearing pale spreading hairs on lower surface, with a few red ones; pinnules to 100 by 15-20 mm; costules of tertiary leaflets 4 mm apart; largest fertile tertiary leaflets lobed throughout almost to the costule, with 4-5 pairs of soriferous lobes, the lowest lobes usually bilobulate with forked vein, sterile lobule not longer than fertile; largest sterile tertiary leaflets less deeply lobed, veins in lowest lobe pinnate, in rest forked or simple; hairs on lower surface of costae and costules pale, firm (cell-walls not collapsed), spreading; spores almost smooth.

Mountain forests at elevations of 1,500-2,500 metres.