Oleandra cumingii J.Sm.

Rhizome short-to long creeping, 3-8 mm thick, little branched and not forming extensive stands, in cross-section with or without scattered sclerified strands, sometimes white waxy in the older parts; roots scattered, sometimes with unbranched aerial parts; fronds scattered or more or less tufted. Scales persistently covering the rhizome, peltate, 4-9 by 5-1.5 mm, appressed, acumen with dark centre and lighter acumen and margin, margin ciliate especially when young. Fronds monomorphic, phyllopodia (1-)3-10 cm high, stipe 2-12 cm long, without dark coloration, glabrous or hairy with catenate to acicular up to 2 mm long hairs, lamina to c. 40 by 2-4.5 cm, base narrowly cuneate to truncate, apex acute to long-acuminate, texture thin-chartaceous, both surfaces and margin with catenate or acicular hairs 0.2-1 mm long, usually more densely on lower surface, costa without dark coloration, on lower surface without or with few, pale to dark scales. Sori close to or scattered up to 2 mm from the costa, indusium distinct, 1-2 mm wide, densely hairy with short or long hairs. Sporangial stalk with glands below the sporangium. Spores with broad or narrow confluent ridges, surface variably ornamented with small pustules to narrow spines, perispore hollow, with internal baculae, outer layer not or finely perforated, sometimes fissured along the ridges.

Terrestrial or on rocks, cliffs and roadsides in open forest, to c. 1200 m altitude.