Stipe and rachis mostly yellow-brown, bearing sparse non-glandular hairs; stipe 12–80 cm long, 1.5–5 mm diam. Lamina rhombic to broadly ovate, 20–100 cm long, 15–70 cm wide, 3-pinnate at base, with abundant colourless stiff slightly curved non-glandular hairs 0.3–0.8 mm long on undersides of veins and midribs. Primary pinnae in 15–30 pairs; longest 13–45 cm long, 6.5–28 cm wide. Longest secondary pinnae 3.5–15 cm long, 12–50 mm wide, decreasing markedly in size along primary pinnae; midrib winged. Longest tertiary pinnae 6–25 mm long, 3–10 mm wide. Veins ending in apices of ultimate pinnules. Sori with paraphyses among sporangia, unprotected by laminal flaps, often absent from lowest 2 pairs of pinnae. Spores pale, echinate, 31–34 × 20–23 µm.
Found along creek banks and drainage channels in dry, shaded, sclerophyll forest, and on swampy ground in more open country.
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