Scrambling, long creeping fern, or high climbing epiphyte with base rooted to the ground, fronds widely spaced, horizontal to pendulous with drooping pinnae. Rhizome 5-25 mm diam., pale green, sometimes slightly glaucous, smooth, with scattered, dark, small, orbicular scales, especially towards the apex, the growing tip completely covered. Fronds 100-150 cm long, including a stipe of 10-50 cm long, sterile pinnae for the most part not articulate to the rhachis, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 9-30 by 3-5 cm, tip acute, slightly attenuate, base often asymmetric, mostly rounded, with a small dark gland on the apical side, margin almost entire to serrulate, especially at the apex; fertile pinnae linear, 15-30 cm by (3-)4-8 mm. Spores with irregular broken ridges.
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A scrambling creeping fern. It has its base rooted to the ground but climbs up trees. The fronds are widely spaced and come out horizontally but then hang down. The rhizome is 10-15 mm across and pale green. Sometimes it is covered with a bluish bloom. The rhizome is smooth but with dark small circular scales. The fronds are 100-150 cm long and 3-5 cm wide. The fertile segments of the divided fronds are 4-7 mm wide and 15-30 cm long. They occur higher on the plant.
A tropical plant. They occur in well drained lowland rainforest. They can occur in sago swamps and near rivers. They occur between sea level and 300 m altitude. They occur in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Often they occur with Stenochlaena palustris but tends to be more robust and in less swampy conditions.
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