Schizaea fistulosa Labill.

Rhizome short-creeping, young parts clothed with shining brown hairs 2-3 mm long; stipes very crowded; fronds unbranched, 9-18 (rarely to 30) cm long below the fertile part, width to about 1 mm, upper surface rather deeply grooved, lower surface almost evenly rounded and bearing two rows of stomata which are not in grooves; surfaces bearing scattered glandular hairs the bases of which are slightly prominent. Sorophores all about equal, arranged in a distinctly pinnate manner along the distal 10-20 mm of the axis of the frond, 8-20 pairs, lowest often forked, 4-6 mm long, edges much reflexed and bearing many coarse forward-pointing hairs; sporangia in two rows, without hairs; spores smooth.

Grows in wet and open heathlands, on and near raised mounds in swamps and sedgelands in clay, sandy or peaty soils.