Dicksonia youngiae C.Moore & Moore

Trunk 2–4 m tall, often falling over and becoming decumbent; accessory growths common along the trunk, eventually developing into separate plants when the trunk falls and decays; base of stipes and trunk apex densely covered with glossy tangled bright red-brown hairs to 4.5 cm long. Fronds in a spreading crown. Stipe to 30 cm long, smooth or verrucose, hairy. Lamina 3-pinnate, oblong-lanceolate, 2–3 m long, bright green to dark green, shiny above, dull and paler beneath, coriaceous; central pinnae longest, c. 15–30 cm long, reduced to each end; basal pinnae spreading at right angles to the rachis; ultimate segments falcate, acute when sterile, obtuse when fertile. Sori 1.5–2 mm diam., solitary on each lobe.

Grows in moist to wet gullies in rainforest and forms localised colonies by vegetative reproduction.