Didymochlaena truncatula (Sw.) J.Sm.

Rhizome often up to 10 cm above the ground, like a short tree fern. Stipes to 50 cm long or more. Leaves often more than 1 m long with numerous alternate pinnae, the longest 15-30(-40) cm long, the lowest pinnae shorter than the uppermost; pinnules parallelogram-shaped, contiguous, almost at right angles to rhachis, 8-20 by 5-10 mm; margins entire or very slightly toothed at the blunt apex; texture when dry chartaceous; the veins when dry not clearly raised on either side; colour when dry brown, when living dark green and often iridescent; the young leaves reddish. Sori about 4(-10) in a row near the acroscopic margin, often also one near the basiscopic side.

Moist shady valleys in primary forest at medium elevations.

Can be grown by divisions.