Woodsia burgessiana Gerrard ex Hook. & Baker

Rhizome erect to suberect, up to 30 mm long, up to 4 mm in diam., branched, with stipe bases and scales; scales centrally dark brown to black, glossy, with narrow reddish brown margins, lanceolate to subulate, up to 6 x 2 mm. Fronds erect, crowded, up to 330 mm long. Stipe basally dark brown, stramineous to greenish higher up, terete or adaxially flattened, up to 85 mm long, up to 2 mm in diam., basally with clavate glands, uniseriate hairs and scales; scales up to 4 x 0.6 mm. Lamina 1-pinnate-pinnatifid, narrowly elliptic, up to 125 x 60 mm, pinnae gradually reducing in size and more widely spaced towards lamina base. Rachis greenish to stramineous, sulcate adaxially, with multicellular, uniseriate hairs and capitate glands. Pinnae pale green, herbaceous, narrowly triangular, lanceolate to elliptic, up to 36 x 25 mm, pinnatifid; segments oblong, up to 8 x 4.5 mm; lobes dentate, adaxially with few-celled hairs and capitate glands, abaxially with multicellular hairs along and between veins and along lamina margins; venation evident, forked, free. Sori circular, up to 1.2 mm in diam., in a single line on either side of costule, up to 4 pairs per lobe. Indusium translucent or pale brown, thinly chartaceous, surrounding the receptacle, of diffuse form, scale-like to cupulate, lacerate, often with glands and/or hairs on the outer surface.